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THE INDIANS. 

iIIE land in this section of country was, 

upon the advent of the whites, claimed 
by the Chippewa Indians, though it was some- 
times invaded by theSioux. Theold settlers say 

that the beauty, grace, honesty and several other 
virtues claimed for the dusky suns and daughters 
of the forest, arc all a humbug, and originated 
in the brain of some love-sick novelist. An In- 
dian maiden was not remarkable for her beauty 
in olden times any more than she is now. She had little snakey e; 
straight, coarse, black hair ; high cheek bones ; a flat nose, and a low, 
retreating forehead. She had her white sister's love of paint, only 
she sought to improve on nature by using many colors, and more of 
them. She would appear at times before her lovers with a red fore- 
head, a blue nose, yellow cheeks and a green chin, reversing the color 
each day to suit her peculiar taste. She was not as particular about 
the quantity of her wearing apparel as she was about the quality. 
Her dress in summer generally consisted of a string of beads; in 
the winter, on account of the severe climate, she was obliged to wear 
rhin^ heavier. ^\i>} never washed, nor combed her hair. In fact 
both men and women levelled in filth, as a ' in the mini. 

The he, ihout the Indians also seem to be originated where 

the idea of Indian beauty is. The Indian would purchase his squaw 
from her people, when In- made up his mind to have one; and he who 

Neii — Tl.i- f the old settlers, who say tl.at 

tin- Bquawa received pre* d ami white, much tin- rame as il e 

women of oar race do; bat lhat tic Bquawa were not trafficked for otherwise, ami 

that they » a in the matter. 

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264 American Sketch Booh. 

could pay the largest price had the first chance for a bargain. He 
took as many wives as he wanted, and if he found he could not kill 
game enough for all, he gave some of them their discharge. He put 
all of the heavy work upon the squaws. Indian admirers say that he 
did so because it was necessary that his nerves should be steady when 
taking his aim at game. Be this as it may, it is certain that the 
squaws carried all the burdens, built the wigwams, cut the wood, made 
the fires and cooked the food, while the master lolled about, drinking 
and smoking. The Indians have never been believers in women's 
rights. The squaws have all the rights they want, and do not make 
any move until commanded by their lords. Neither did the Indians 
improve by mingling with the whites. They imitated all the white 
people's vices, but none of the white people's virtues. They learned 
readily to drink and gamble, and though the Chippewa language 
contains no " curse words," they would swear harder in English than 
any raftsman. More than this, the Chippewas did not take much to 
the English language. The white people, instead of raising the In- 
dians to their own level, generally descended nearly to a level with 
them. This intermingling of the races, perhaps, saved much blood- 
shed and torture, such as have been visited in other localities ; for 
the Indians would not murder their own kinsman, unless greatly 
exasperated. 

The Indians, as a race, though sometimes capable of gratitude, are 
generally a shrewd, unprincipled people. Mr. L. Bullard, one of 
the oldest settlers of Menomonie, tells quite an amusing anecdote, 
illustrative of these characteristics of Indian disposition. In 1849, 
Mr. Bullard was logging on Hay River, about eighteen miles from 
where Menomonie now is, and kept a supply store. The Indians there 
constantly coveting the trinkets and liquor which he had on hand for 
trading purposes, in the fall, brought in their camp-kettles and sold 
them to Mr. Bullard, taking their pay out of the store. But when 
the sugar-making time came, they needed their kettles, and they sent 
a squaw, whose name was " Old Goose," to borrow them. Mr. Bul- 
lard objected, at first, to lending them, but upon Old Goose's pledge 
of honor to return said kettles in good order, as soon as the sugar 
season should be over, he reluctantly let them go ; which was done 
with the understanding that he should receive a certain quantity of 
sugar for their use. One morning, however, about the close of the 
sugar-season, Mr. Bullard discovered that the Indians had pulled up 
their wigwams and departed, bag and baggage, during the previous 



Menomonu and Dunn County^ Wisconsin. 265 

eight, taking along his kettles as well as the sugar which was due him. 

Mr. Ballard was angry, so angry that he decided to follow the [ndians 
and recover the camp-kettles. Upon his avowing his intention 
man, George Wilson by name, offered to accompany him ; and, stra 

as it may seem, these two men Btarted in pursuit, without a weapon of 
any kind with which to defend themselves, in case of an assault. 
They followed the trail in company, until they found it forked, when 
they separated, one taking the right and the other the left trail. Mr. 
Ballard had not proceeded far, when he overtook Old Goose's 
and another Indian, the former being armed with a shot-gun. The 
gentleman inquired concerning the squaw and the kettles, hut Old 
Goose's son answ r ered impudently that he knew nothing about either. 
More exasperated than before, Mr. Bullard made the reckless decision 
to obtain possession of the gun, and making a quick spring, grasped 
it and tried to wrench it from the Indian, who immediately sh 
his determination not to give it up. A hot scuffle ensued, during 
which Indian number two seated himself upon the ground and kept 
perfectly neutral. Finally the gun was broken in two, each oppo- 
nent having secured a piece. "I made up my mind then," said 
the narrator, " that I must kill the Indian to save my life. I had 
the larger piece, and it was the butt end of the gun. I raised this, 
anl made a dash at him, but he sprang backward, crying for mercy, 
and at the same time, offering me the other piece. I relented in his 
favor, and taking the offered piece, retraced my steps homeward^ 
closely followed by the Indians. On arriving home, I told my wife 
the whole story, and then we both began to wonder, somewhat fear- 
fully, what the consequence of my rash act would be. After a while 
1 -aw Old Goose's son approaching my dwelling. lie knocked at the 
door and I opened it, knowing full well that it would not do for me 
to manifest any fear. Judge of my surprise, when I tell you that 
ranged along by the fence, were the missing kettles. Stealthily, Old 

-<• had returned them, and that being done, the Indian had come 
boldly to demand pay for his gun. 'There are your kettles,' hesaid 
in the Chippewa tongue. 'We do not steal, nor lie, nor cheat. You 

mad and broke my gun, and I want to be paid for it.' ' I p in 
reflection, Mr. Ballard concluded to pay for the gun, as the Indian 
ght dollars in trade for it ; but he also gave the | 

the broken one back to it- QOWing that it could be mended 

with very little work. So the quarrel e 

restored. 



206 American Sketch Book. 

The Indians, rough, ignorant and uncouth as they are, seem to have 
always had a tinge of romance about them ; and their language is 
said to be rather flowery. The incidents relating to the sickness, 
death and burial of Saganash, as told by Mrs. Bullard, is one worthy 
of a place in this article. These transpired during tht residence of 
the Bullards on Hay River. Saganash was an old Indian, struck 
down with consumption, and obliged to leave his tribe, since he could 
no longer follow it. One of his squaws (he had had three) had de- 
parted this life ; another had taken her papoose and gone home to her 
parents, at his desire, as he could not hunt enough for all , but the 
last and youngest, he kept with him, that she might care for him un- 
til the end. On leaving his tribe, Saganash asked permission of the 
Bullards to build his wigwam near their store for obvious advantages. 
The permission being granted, he desired Mr. Bullard to take a 
blue blanket, which he had in his possession, and immediately after 
his death to give his squaw therefore, sufficient whisky to enable her 
and his friends to do the mourning business to perfection. Mr. 
Bullard refused to take the blanket, as it was cold weather, and the 
Indian needed it ; but he promised to furnish the required whisky. 
Saganash then made a very effective speech, in which he returned 
thanks to Mr. Bullard, and also portrayed his own misery and pov- 
erty. There had been a time when his wigwam was filled with game, 
when all his squaws and papooses were about him, and when whisky 
and tobacco were plenty. Now he was obliged to quit his people, to 
give up one of his squaws, and to depend on his children for support. 
He wept while he was speaking, and his apparent sorrow so affected 
his hearers that they resolved to make his few days as pleasant as 
possible. Thenceforth, until the time of his death, which occurred 
about four months later, the Bullards visited him daily, and supplied 
him with the few luxuries which they could command. At one time, 
during his sickness, Saganash fell into a trance, or a fainting fit, and 
was thought to be dead by his squaw and children ; but the whites 
soon succeeded in restoring animation, and he then related to his 
wondering friends a story of a visit to the happy hunting ground — a 
story which proves plainly how belief and education control the vision 
and thought at such times. The evil spirit had brought him word 
that the Great Spirit had sent for him, which was a lie. But believing 
the devil, he had gone to the happy hunting ground, and waited upon 
God, with whom he had a long conversation, and who kindly informed 
him that both he and the Bullards should have a place prepared for 



Mienomonu and Dunn County^ Wisconsin, 267 

them when their days on earth should be ended. He described the 
happy hunting ground as a land around which g 
tioned, and those guns kept up a never-ending puff, puff, puff, and 
were continually bringing down the rarest, fattest game that can be 
imagined. Observing that the two sons of his dead squaw were shed- 
ding tears, he told them not to cry, for he had seen their mother, who 
was engaged in raising corn in the happy hunting ground country ; — 
that the ears were as long as his arm, and the kernels as long as hick- 
ory nuts. He then quietly informed his listeners that he was not to 
die at that time, for God had sent him back, with the request that 
upon his arrival upon earth, he should have a number of guns fired to 
proclaim the facts to the inhabitants of the happy hunting ground. 
So urgent was he in the matter of the firing guns, that the whites 
humored him by discharging all the fire-arms they had in their pos- 
session. Whether the signal was ever recognized by the people of the 
happy hunting ground, the writer cannot say ; but certain it is, the 
firing was heard by a party of Chippewa? encamped three miles dis- 
tant, and they, believing that the Sioux were on the war-path, lied in 
dismay from that part of the country. A few weeks later, Saganash 
died ; at which time the squaw received the promised whisky. They 
buried him where the fire of the wigwam had been kept all winter, 
that spot being unfrozen. An Indian, related to the dead man, was 
here at the timj, and he made a very flowery and impressive sermon, 
during which he spoke of the kindness of the whites, declaring in 
extravagant language that the Chippewas would suffer their ears to be 
cut off, their tongues torn out and their eyes put out before they would 
bring any trouble to the settlers on Hay River. 

In fact, very few whites suffered from Indian depredation in thi< 
section of the country, farther than by petty thefts and like annoy- 
ances. There seems to have been but few murders. Two of t 
are wrapt in mystery, since none know what provoked them. i 
men, whose names the writer did not learn, while looking for a mill- 
were set upon by the Indians. Their mutilated bodies were found by 
some hunters and brought to Menomonie for burial. The murder of 
William Wickham in 1850 is still fresh in the minds of the old settlers. 
The Indian. Big Rascal, for some cause or other, had coi 
hatred for Wickham, and one night entered the man's sleeping quar- 
ters and stabbed him to the heart. Wiekhani's bed-fellow, a white 
man, was obliged to lie all night in a pool of blood by the Bide of his 
dead companion, and was threatened with a like fate if he dared to 



2G8 American Sketch Booh. 

move. There were also two other men, who were searching out pine 
lands, that were shot hy the Indians, while running a canoe up the 
Red Cedar. This happened in an early day, and the names of the 
unfortunate strangers are not remembered by the old settlers. No 
other murders by the Indians are on record. 

SETTLEMENT BY THE WHITES. 

It is uncertain at what time the pineries on the Red Cedar River 
were first visited by white people. It is thought that the timber used 
in constructing the French shanties at Fort Crawford (now known as 
Prairie du Chien) a century or more ago, was taken from this part of 
the country ; as saw-pits, having a very ancient appearance, are to be 
found along the banks of the river. The pits were made for the use 
of whip-saws. A log was placed across the pit, and two men, one in 
the pit and one above, with an up-and-down saw, cut it into boards. 
In 1820, the American Fur Company sent sawyers to this part of the 
country, and in 1829, companies of men under Lieutenants Gardener 
and Gale* cut and rafted lumber, from the pineries of the Red Cedar, 
to complete Fort Crawford. A Mr. Perkins, of Kentucky, had pre- 
viously, in 1822, built a mill on the Red Cedar, but it was washed away 
by a freshet before its completion, and threats from the Indians pre- 
vented him from re-building it. Judge Lockwood of Prairie du Chien 
visited the mill-site in company with the expedition from the fort. 
The following year, he returned and erected a mill on what is now 
known as Wilson's Creek. A year later, he built a second mill, a mile 
and a half below the first. II, S. Allen bought an interest in the 
mills in 1835, and in 1837 this company. built a third mill still lower 
down, by about five miles. In 1839, Lockwood sold out his interest 
to H. S. Allen. Five years later a Mr. Green bought the upper mill, 
but sold it soon after to David Black. For several years, G. S. Bran- 
ham was associated with II. S. Allen in the mill business. They were 
known as the firm of Allen & Branham. They sold the middle mill, 
situated on what is now known as Gilbert's Creek, then called Middle 
Mill Creek, to Samuel Gilbert & Son, in 1846. 

Such were the state of affairs when Captain William Wilson, of 
Fort Madison, Iowa, determined to make an exploring tour through 
the county in search of a location. He ascended the Mississippi 
River by a steamboat to a point known as Nelson's Landing, 

*Note. — It is claimed by some, that previous to the lilting out of this expedition, 
another under the command of -lelf Davis, visited the Red Cedar for this same pur- 
pose ; but this story is not credited, as the parties who gave it circulation have been 
heard to deny its truth. 



Menomonu and Dunn Count//, Wisconsin. 269 

and, learning from Mr. Branham (of the firm of Allen & Branham) 
with whom he chanced to meet, tfa i plenty upon 

the Red Cedar River ( he accompanied thai gentleman hither. This 
journey was made od foot, early in the spring of L846. 

tptain Wilson had any amount of ambition, energy and h 
but he was "lit | 1 of mucb money; ami he has 1 

proved what so often has been disputed : that the three first, if assisted 
by health, are a fortune in themselves. Finding that an inte 
in Black's mill was for sale, he made an exploration of fifty miles up 
the river, to ascertain how the pine WO aid " hold out." The trip wis 
takci in a canoe, with no companion but an Indian gu He soon 

became satisfied in regard to the pine-question, and he r , then 

and there, to have an interest in the mill., if by any honorahle m 
he could raise the money required. For this purpose he returned to 
Fort Madison, where he interviewed John II. Knapp, Esq., a young 

man who had recently loft an eastern college, and who was looking 

ab 'if for an opportunity to in'. all amount of money, a put of 

which was from his lather's estate, and the remainder left him hy an 

in X w York. The scheme seemed feasable to Mr. Knapp, ami 

ed to look into the matter. He went with Captain Wilson to 

Black's mill, and finding the property to his liking, concluded to make 

the purchase. The pair returned to Fort Madison, and there met 

David Black, with whom they contracted for a half interest in the 

mill. Shortly after this, C apt. Wilson, accompanied hy his family 

(which consisted of his wife and four children) and Jason Ball and 

wife, made a trip to their ne* home, ascending the Chippewa and lied 

Cedar rivers on a keel boat, i For description of a keel-bo page 

f the current volume of the Skip n BOOK.) Three week- later. 

Mr. Knapp also returned to the mill, bringing with him, on a keel- 

boat, Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Bullard, formerly of Fort Madison, hut 

' of Galena, whom he had to keep the men- boarding- 

bouse : and Mr-. Clair and son, Mr-. Ballard's help, lie also brought 
a boat-load of supplies. 1' may he inl . to some of our read- 

era to know that Mr. Knapp either or poled the boat through 

the entire trip. [| was a slow method of travelii _ r at best, and the 
women must needs have something - away the tin I as 

men. Upon this particular occasion they brought out a work- 
mployed tic or knitting. The work- 

basket contained besides hall- of yarn and needle-work, a lot;.' 

rs belong Mr. Ballard. Now it happened that one day 



270 American Sketch Booh 

little Eugene Bullard, then some three years old, while dancing 
about the boat, chanced to knock the basket into the river ; and as 
the basket, balls and bottle went gliding over the waves, the women 
set up a dismal wail, which so smote the tender heart of Mr. Knapp, 
that he at once sprang overboard to regain the articles. The water 
was deep and swift, and the young man did not find his self-imposed 
task an easy one. He succeeded in getting the basket and balls, but 
the bottle of bitters drifted beyond his reach, and in his earnest en- 
deavors to possess it, he gave the people on the boat the idea that he 
was drowning ; and they, in their desire to come to his asssistance, 
upset some other articles, which he also had to swim after and gather 
in. Knowing that in the new country toward which they were travel- 
ing, all their supplies would be needed, he determined to secure every 
article which was overboard ; and as his arms flew about in a livelier 
manner than ever, the impression that he was drowning gained, and 
the preparations for assistance began in good earnest. It was not 
till after having secured basket, balls, bottle and all, he clambered 
back into the boat, that they could understand just how matters 
were; and then all parties had a laugh over the affair. Few young 
men of the present day would jump into swift drift-water to secure a 
lady's work basket, especially if they had to remain wet all day in 
consequence, as did Mr. Knapp. 

During the same trip the youthful Eugene got into trouble. He 
made up his mind, one evening while the party were landed in order 
to get supper, that he would go into the water to bathe. His parents 
were not willing, but he was a self-willed child, and in he went. It 
was the era of musquitoes. Old settlers say that musquitoes would 
sweep over the country in masses so thick that they formed a black 
cloud as they moved. It was only by keeping a constant smoke that 
the people could live in any measure free from the attacks of those 
insects. Upon this occasion the wilful youngster had only got fairly 
stripped and into the water when a cloud of musquitoes settled upon 
him. As their million bills went into his tender flesh, he gave a most 
unearthly yell, and started for the shore, where he was met by his 
frightened mother, who put on the slaps (killing musquitoes, of course) 
thick and fast. His appearance, as he stood by her side, his flesh 
swollen by the bites, and covered with blood and mashed musquitoes, 
and his mouth stretched to the utmost capacity in order to give vent 
to his terrible yells, can better be imagined than described. 

The persons already mentioned in this sketch, a few workmen and 



Menomonn and Dunn County^ Wisconsin. -71 

two white women, who had been among the [ndiane bo long that they 
bad about forgotten tliat they did belong to thi 
made up the entire white population for quite a period. The firm 
name of the upper mill at this time was Knapp & Black. But Mr. 
Black died Borne time during 1846, and J. S. Lockwoodof Prairie du 
Chien, being administrator of Mr. Black's property, made a visit to 
the mill for the purpose of investigating matters. Subsequently 
Knapp & Wil on bought out the interest of the Black family; and 
etime in the month of September, L850, Captain Andrew Tainter 
became a partner. A new mill, comprising two gang saws and 
two rotai erected soon after Captain Tainter *s admission into 

the mill company. This linn was known us Knap]) & Tainter. In 
L853, 1.'. L Stout of Dubuque, a man of some means, bought an in- 
t( rot in the mills, ami the firm then took the name of Knapp, Stout 
& Co., which it ha nee retained. 

It is nol the intention of the writer to give the entire history of 
this fan, mis company here, as another article will be devoted to that 
purpose. A gei era! outline of leading events is what this sketch is 
intended I rot. 

The c< nntry about the mills was found to be a magnificent pine 
jt, interppersed with hard woods and skirted in places by hard 
lands; the soil varied and tillable, sandy, with a sub .-oil 
of clay on and near the river banks, and loamy on the table land- ; 
and the whole richly watered by pure streams and springs which 
.tiered an abundance of fi?h. With a judgemnt that looked to future 
welfare more than to pri ■ • 1 1 c comforts, the Mill Company, unlike 
many other searchers for homes and wealth, instead- of being discour- 
ag I by hardships, on I by the rude society, entered the lands 

as i'.i-t :i- they came into market, and thereby laid a foundation for 
future wealth and greatness. This company opened the first farm in 
I thereby that the soil was very productive; and 
in order that the people might be induced t. settle on farms, they 
bought all the grain raised, for many years, paying a high prioe for 
the same ; thus furnishing hone- market and stimulating the 

firming interests. 

There w benefit} to.>. arising from the lark of society, looking 

;l t in • ley-making point of view. Rich dr< ss was not 

. i by any piece of calico would 

furnish all the dn ised by all tl n in the neighborhood for 

a while year, and make each a Sunday-go-to-meeting Bun-bonnet 



272 American Sketch Boole. 

well. The men wore check, and flannel shirts, and outer clothes of 
coarse cloth. Men, women and children, from the highest to the low- 
est, had to work, and no one acted as if he thought himself a little 
better than were his neighbors. 

Supplies for the first settlers were brought up theriver by keel-boats 
in the summer, and by trains on the ice in the winter. They consisted 
principally of whisky, pork, beans and flour, the whisky, it is said by 
some, being largely in excess. What is true in this respect of this 
place, is true of the whole country. The demand for whisky as a 
commodity is portrayed excellently by Oapt. Johnson, in his history of 
Black Iliver Falls. It is said that when St. Paul was only an Indian 
trading-post, it was noticed, one fall, that a Mr. Hartshorn, a trader, 
while carrying up supplies upon the last boat of the season, had, as 
part of his cargo, one hundred barrels of whisky, but not a barrel of 
meat or flour; from which it would seem that the early St. Paulites 
subsisted almost entirely upon whisky. People in Dunn County did 
not suffer actual want, though the food was sometimes coarse and un- 
palatable. It very often happened that the staves had to be removed 
from a barrel of flour, and the flour pounded up with an ax, before it 
could be made into bread. But there was plenty of game, berries and 
all kinds of wild fruit belonging to these latitudes, and those who 
were not too indolent to work need have no fears of suffering from 
lack of food. Still there were hardships which had to be endured 
while the country was unsettled. For a time the nearest post-office 
was at Prairie du Chien, and during that period such of the young 
men as had left girls behind them, must have had their faith severely 
tried. For the first seven years there were no regular wagon roads ; 
and traveling by Indian trails through a then measureless forest, was 
more romantic than pleasant. There was but little immigration dur- 
ing that period, and the majority of the people who did come, wearied 
of the hardships attendant upon the life of a pioneer, and returned to 
their old homes, consequently but little or no society existed, and the 
cultivated had to seek the companionship of the ignorant and uncouth, 
or remain isolated from their fellow beings. So the mind, perhaps, 
knew more of want than did the body. There were, however, times 
when the supplies fell short, and when the rifles brought down only 
muskrats ; and those times are looked upon by the old settlers as the 
hardest ones that they had to endure. The prejudice against those 
animals had more to do with making the people feel in actual want, 
when obliged to eat the flesh thanwas really necessary ; since the un- 



Menomonu and Dunn County^ Wiscon 273 

initiated would partake of it with :i relish, and be under the impres- 
sion that they were eating sqirrel-stew. Neither did the old settlers 
here Buffer from attacks of the Indians, as the | in other 

parts of the Union have done. True, there were occasional battles 
among Sioux and the Chippewas, and sometimes hard feelings between 
the whites and the [ndians; the settlers very often suffered from thefts 
committed by their dusky neighbors; but, as previously remarked, 
with ;i lew exceptions, no white person's blood was shed in this valley 
by them, and their attacks wei illy provoked, as in one or two 

3 which will be mentioned. 

An attack upon some of the whites was at one time occasioned by 
a man by the name of Harris, who ordered the Indian, Big Rascal, 
out of the men's sleeping quarters, and who, upon the refusal of the 
savage to comply with the demand, resorted to the use of fists and 
boots, to make the order more forcible. Not long after the expulsion 
of Big Rascal, as narrated, the whites were alarmed by the Indian 
war-cry. aid a party of Chippewas, headed by Masonaquet, a chief, 
was seen approaching. It was not a very pleasant sight ; — the Indi- 
ans coming, swinging their tomahawks and crying for blood, followed 
by their squaw-, who, with their dismal wails were begging them to 
desist. But Mr. Bullard, with a remarkable forethought, went out to 
meet the chief. " If you want blood," he said, "take mine first." 
Masonaquet paused in amazament, which allowed Mr. Dullard time to 
explain the matter. Upon hearing the whole truth, the chief admitted 
that Big Rascal was in the blame, and expressed himself willing to 
resume the friendly relations which had previously existed. It is 
quite possible that this daring art prevented much bloodshed, if not 
a general massacre. 

Iu 1848, one George Wilson (no relation to Capt. Wilson) bought 
hired or bribed a squaw, known as Mary Dirty-face, to marry him, 
Indian fashion. But the union did n>>t prove a happy one. M try 
Dirty face, after the manner of some of the women now-a-days, ab- 
solutely refused to share her bed and board with her lord : and to re- 
taliate, hi- siezed upon the goods with which he had bought or bribed 
In r, and burned them. Not yet satisfied with his revenge, he pur- 
chased a gallon of whisky and a quantity of ipecac, and invited the 
I ndians to have a big drunk with him, being careful, however, t> drink 
none of the drugged whisky himself. The deed aroused the ire of 
the savages, as well it might, and as soon as they were sufficiently re- 
covered, they Bounded the terrible war cry and started in pursuit of 



274 American Shetcli Boole. 

vengeance. George Wilson was warned in time, and escaped, which did 
not contribute much toward healing the wounds that the Indians had 
received at his hands. They made terrible threats against the peace 
of the whites, but finally became quieted without resorting to blood- 
shed. Perhaps it is needless to add that thenceforth Mary Dirty-face 
was considered as lawfully divorced from her lord and master. 

The Indians did not call the white settlers by their real names, but 
christened them, Indian fashion, with appropriate cognomens, by 
which they were known and familiarly spoken of by their own people, 
as well. Capt. Wilson was " Chah-no," (big nose) ; T. B. Wilson was 
called "Chah-ness," (little nose); J. II. Knapp was known as "Ne- 
pos-ke, 1 ' or the great sleeper ; Elisha Brown, an early settler, and a 
logger, was "Wah-ba-no," (morning dawn); Levi Vance, a partner of 
Brown's, was "O-wist-we ah," (blacksmith), and Lorenzo Bullard had 
the outlandish cognomen of " Che-puck-wah-nin-ny," which means a 
cook. As the latter person kept the boarding-house, it was to him 
that the hungry natives oftenest came begging. Upon one occasion, 
the Indian, Nain-ne-aun-gabe, familiarly known by the whites as Lit- 
tle Chief, and really the most honorable man in the Chippewa nation, 
(if Indians are possessed of any honor) called on Bullard for some 
food, and Bullard put a half bushel of fried cakes on the table, and 
told Little Chief to help himself. The hungry native devoured five 
or six, then, spreading his blanket on the table, deliberately emptied 
all of the cakes into it, and made off with them, giving a grunt of sat- 
isfaction as he passed through the door. Bullard, too suprised to stop 
his progress, looked after the chief with widely opened eyes, and ejac- 
ulated : "By John Rogers, who would have thought the d d Indian 

would have gobbled them all? " 

THE MAN WITH THE WHITE SHIRT ON. 

In the spring of 1847, James Wilson, a brother of Capt. Wilson, 
came, on a keel-boat, to some point on Chippewa River, and walked 
thence to the home of the Captain, passing on his journey the resi- 
dence of the Gilberts, situated two miles distant. It being a warm 
day, he had removed his coat to facilitate his walking, and thus dis- 
closed to the wondering Gilberts the fact that he was a man who wore 
a white shirt. All unconscious, however, that he was a subject of 
wonderment, he continued on his way, and arrived, in the course of 
time, at his brother's place of residence, so completely fatigued that 
it was necessary for him to go to bed, in order to recruit his wasted 
energies. Mrs. Bullard, being at the Wilson's at the time of his arri- 



Menomonii and Dunn County, Wisconsin. 27o 

v;il, invited him to rest at her house, deeming it the more quiet of the 
two. The invitation was accepted. Bat the young man ha 1 scarcely 
cnsconsel himself in the inviting bed, before Mrs. Bullard n 
upon by the entire Gilbert family, which consisted of four women and 
one man. There were two rooms in Ballard's cabin, one of which 
w is used for a Bleeping room : an 1 after closing the door between the 
apartments, that the weary traveler might not be disturbed, Mrs. Bul- 
i ir 1 -it down to entertain the party of caller-. She ha I often invited 
the Gilbert family to make her a visit, — coming all together, i. ; 
of one at a time, as they were in the habit of doing ; ami now she cx- 
pressed her surprise and pleasure at their being able to do so. "La .'" 
returned Mrs. Gilbert, fanning herself- vigorously with her sun-bonnet, 
" we didn't come visiting. Bless you, we havn't time for that. The 
truth is, we saw a man pass our house with a biled shirt on, and we 
jist started after him full chase, to see what he is here for. A man 
must be a fool, or crazy, or something, to wear a biled shirt up here. 
Where is he, Mrs. Bullard? Is he here':" The lady, interrogated, in- 
formed the Gilberts of the fact that the stranger was at the time rest- 
ing in one of her beds. " What's he want, and what's he doing here ? " 
they all demanded in chorus. Without replying, Mrs. BulIarJ ste] 
to the door, leading to the other apartment, and said to the travel r : 
"Mr. Wilson, you are waited upon by a deputation of ladies who are 
alarmed for the safety of any man that is reckless enough to wear a 
a white shirt. You will therefore please come out and give on account 
of yourself and of your business here.'' It is perhaps needless to add 
that the gentleman complied with the request, and ended his explana- 
tions by promising never to wear a white shirt again ; and that tin- 
party returned home satisfied that his ignorance excused his off- 
John 11. Knapp, Esq., when at the mills, was more careful. He laid 
aside his dress clothes for the more popular ones of the backwoods 
men. I p m one occasion he substituted a pair of moccasins for his 
fine hoots; but when he again needed the latter, he found one of them 
. Not wishing to appear upon the b xders of ci\ ilization dressed 
like an Indian, he institute 1 a Bearch for the missing article. He 

went to one wigwam and enquired about it. The cup mred 

him that they did not steal, but they were sure their next neighl 
did. The next neighbors told a similar story. Finally he entered a 
wigwam where he found an Indian lying on the ground, covered up 

with a blanket. lie at on ioncluded that that Indian had his boot J 

and on Bnatching off" the blanket In- found that his conclusion 



276 American Sketch Booh 

right, for, upon the soles of the old chap's moccasins, he discovered 
his boot top. He also, upon searching the wigwam, found the sole of 
the boot. But the Indian denied stealing the boot, and pretended not 
to know where he got it. Mr. Knapp retaliated by seizing a shot-gun, 
and taking it away with him to his quarters. He was followed by a 
crowd of whooping savages, who, however, did not have courage to 
attack him, though they complained loudly about his treatment. He 
very quietly informed them that his boots had cost as much as the 
gun, and that he intended to keep the latter in payment for what they 
had stolen. " But we stole only one boot, and you take pay for both !" 
they exclaimed. Finding Mr, Knapp determined to keep the gun, 
they dispersed; but they never could see the justice of paying for two 
boots when they had taken only one. 

The amusements of the early settlers were dancing, card-playing, 
hunting and fishing; in the latter of which the women -were often 
as expert as the men; and so great was the love of dancing, that 
parties have been known to go from Eau Claire to Chippewa Falls, 
breaking the way through deep snow, to attend a dance- The fiddle 
was about all the kind of musical instrument known for many 'years. 
The first piano was brought by Phineas Branch and wife, in 1855, to 
the company's hotel, then kept by Mrs. Bullard. While keeping the 
hotel, which she did during the absence of her husband who was in 
California, Mrs. Bullard received an offer of marriage from an old 
Indian chief, who admired her and pitied her lonely condition The 
hotel was destroyed by fire in 1859, and proved to be a great loss to 
the traveling public, and to the seekers of amusement who had made 
it their headquarters for many years. It was "also in this hotel that 
the live men of what is now Dunn County, resolved no longer to 
countenance the evils of drunkeness and gambling by the sale of liquor, 
or by indulging in the amusement of card-playing. This occurred in 
1851. A party had gathered one evening in the hotel bar-room to 
play for amusement. But they played for oysters, wine and finally 
money; and the whole resulted in something which they had not 
played for, viz., a quarrel, or row of some kind. The unlooked-for 
result of that one evening's amusement set them to thinking, and being 
truly thinking men, they saw their error, and resolved thenceforth to 
make amends for it. 

Previous to this, however, and as early as 1818, the Company had 
given up the liquor traffic. It occurred in this wise: Several rafts 
had been broken up and scattered about, through the inefficiency of 



Menomonu and'Dunn County^ H in. 277 

druuken workmen; wh Wilson rem wrke 1 rather snappishly 

that the miserable whisky w.is to blame For the whole thing. " Why 
u let them have it?" asked Mr. Knapp. "You bring it ap," 
retorted the < Saptain. " 5Tes, ] ul ; on put it in your bills of ueede 1 
Bupplies. ' " Well, m \t time you bring supplies, just leave it out," 
saiil Capt. Wilson. Mr. Knapp took the Captain at his w >rd, and the 
next boat brought no liquor. The men, who bad been anxiously 
awaiting the arrival of a supply of their favoriti id at 

the boat's freight, and finding none there, began to look black, 
has not brought a drop of whisky," they complained to the I 
"How is thi<, Knapp ': " asked thai individual tersely, for the m 
looks threatened mutiny. " Where's the whisky ? " "I forgot it," 
replied Knapp, and his inl r know what that meant. ■• i 

will have to wait until the next time I go for suppl It is need- 

: Id that Mr. Knapp ever after continued to for.: -t that par- 
ticular article , and that the men's bills no longer read as one of the 
old-time topers says his did, which was as follow- : 



L84' 



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Jan. '2, 



To Sundries 



25 

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25 
25 






Other parties, however, \ to furnish liquor to all who 

could pay for it, and the liquor traffic was, therefore, not aboli- 
except by the< Jompany. 

I " ie early in the spring of I s I s , that th" lii sup 

the Chippewa River. The"Dr. Franklin," of Galena, was b 
for the upper Mississippi. Mr. Knapp was on board, having with 
him a crew of workmen ami consi lerable freight, lie also bad freight 
on a Becond boat, the " Highland Mary." it was found that Lake 
Pepin v.. »ata could not proceed on their 

regular trips, Mr. Knapp chartered the " Dr. Franklin" to bring 
men and freight to their destination, he, himself, b g the pilot 

for the time. He brought the ifely thr 

the men ami freight at the mouth of the Red Cedar River. This 



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started the subject of the possibility of navigating the Chippewa, and 
the " Dr. Franklin " was, in course of time, followed by a boat owned 
by H. S. Allen. 

GOING A VISITING IN EARLY DAYS. 
The houses of the early settlers were log cabins, containing not 
more than one or two rooms, and, in most cases, supplied with home- 
made furniture, barely sufficient to meet the wants of the inmates. A 
spare bed was a luxury which few, if any, had ; and, when people 
went a visiting, it was as necessary for them to carry their beds with 
them as it was to take their clothing. Mr. Bullard tells of how he 
was once visited by a party during his residence on Hay River; and a 
description of the arrangements for sleeping is quite amusing. The 
party consisted of Capt. Wilson and wife, Oliver Gilbert and wife 
(now of Brownsville, Minn.) and B. Heard and wife. As usual, they 
all brought their beds with them. But the cabin was small, and could 
not afford room on the floor for three seperate beds ; so one large bed 
was made up, and Mr. Bullard had to puzzle his wits to arrange the 
party in them so that one man would not be placed by the side of 
another man's wife. This is the way he arranged them, and it proved 
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Mr. Bullard was always considered a good floor manager. Another 
description of some sleeping arrangements is still more comical. The 
Bullards were living at the lower mill in a cabin, with two rooms in it, 
each having a single door which opened outside. Another Gilbert 
family were the visitors this time. The Bullards had only two beds, 
and both in one room. One of these was usually occupied by Mr. and 
Mrs. Bullard, and the other by the two children, then little shavers, 
To arrange for Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, who had not brought beds along, 
Mrs. Bullard decided to have Eugene sleep with her and her husband, 
and to put her daughter on a lounge, thus giving up one bed to the 



Menomonit and Dunn County, Wisconsin. 279 

visitors. Now it happened that Mrs. Gilbert was goffering with sick 
head-ache, and in consequence retired before dark. After dark, but 
before bed time, Mr. Ballard complained of being tired, and asked 
where he was to Bleep. Bis wife answered, " In our bed with Enge 
Be misunderstood her to aay, "In Eugene's bed, 4 ' lie went into the 
room, purposely without a light, and got into the children's bed. The 
lady, sup] her husband, did not speak. She noticed 

that he nudged her rather roughly with his elbow, but her head ached 
bo hard that she crept off to the far Bide, and made no complaint. 
A ft era while Mr. Gilbert asked to be shown to bed, and Mrs. Bullard, 
taking a light, led him to the chamber, where they found the pair 
asleep, and apparently totally unconscious of their close proximity to 
each other. The consternation of all parties cannot be described. 
Milliard's greatest trouble, however, was in getting to his own bed. 
His wife says that when he did go, he bore a flag of truce along with 
him. 

Mr. Bullard seems to have given people other causes to laugh at his 
expense several times. The writer heard of a funny joke which was 
played on him, and will give it here. When or where it happened, it 
matters not. Himself and wife were in a house where several young 
folks were visiting, and where the subject of spiritualism was being 
discussed, Mr. Bullard disclaiming all belief in that theory. The 
young folks, assisted by Mrs. Bullard, resolved to make him a believer; 
and as they could not command the spirits, they invented a mechanical 
contrivance to act in place. It was an arrangement for making raps 
on the head-board of his bed, and was managed by a person in another 
room, by means of a wire running under the carpets. Upon the 
night in question, Mr. Bullard retired after a stirring controversy 
upon spiritualism ; but Mrs. Bullard lingered, for obvious reasons, a 
little longer than usual with the young folk-. When finally she sought 
her companion, she found him perched up in bed, on one elbow, listen- 
ing with breathless attention. " What is the matter ?" she asked. 

" I have heard raps here 1 " he replied. " All imagination," she re- 
turned, with a toss of her hea 1. " You have talked against spirit- 
ualism until you have made yourself believe it." But even while she 

spoke, throe distinct raps Were heard. "There!" he exclaimed. 

"Sure enough, you have got the raps after you! Ask it to rap 
twice if you are a medium." " Please rap twice if I am a medium." 
said Mr. Bullard, with terrible earnestness. The answer came, one, 
two. " Perhaps it is your father. Ask it." Slowly and solemnly the 



280 American Sketch Book. 

victim put the question: "If you are my father, please rap twice." 
Again the answer came, one, two. Mrs. Bullard began to edge toward 
the door. " Where are you going ? " he inquired. " Going to find 
other quarters," she replied. "And leave me here alone? " "Yes, 
if you are a medium I am not going to live with you- I won't live 
with a medium." "But I can't help it," he said piteously. "I don't 
want to be a medium. Please don't go ! " " Well, ask your spirit, if 
it will stop rapping if I come to bed ! " In a very anxious and solemn 
manner, Mr. Bullard asked: "Father, will you stop rapping if my 
wife comes to bed ? " One, two, the raps answered. Mrs. Bullard 
went to bed, and no more raps were heard ; but the poor man tossed 
about all night, wondering how she could sleep so quietly while he 
was so restless. The next morning he looked so woe-begone that the 
young folks took pity on him, and informed him that it was all a joke. 
But he was not angry at all. He was only too glad that it was not a 
reality, and that he was not a medium. 

Returning to the early times, tradition gives us a little anecdote, 
which shows how the people spent Sundays. It was one summer, at 
plumming time. Mr. Bullard had worked hard all the week previous, 
and w r as very tired ; still he did not fail to make one of a plumming 
party that started out on Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Ball, one 
of the Company, Mrs. Clair and Eugene Bullard, then a small boy, 
were the other members of the party. They went up the river in a 
canoe, the rowing, or rather poling, being done by the men, who could 
not agree as to the best method of performing that kind of work. One 
of them found considerable fault with Mr. Bullard, who became a little 
angry thereat — all the more so because he was heated and tired with 
the exertion. The consequence was, that when the canoe was landed 
near the thicket, Mr. Bullard threw Eugene across his shoulders and 
started for home on foot. Arriving there, he shook the boy off, and, 
straightening himself up, exclaimed : " Well, if Jesus Christ reigns 
another Sunday, I'll rest." It is needless to add that Sunday service 
was not held in this part of the county at that time. 
THE FIRST MARRIAGES. 

The first marriage in this part of the country, was in 1847. The 
parties were a Mr. Whitcomb and Mrs. Clair. The Circuit Justice of 
the Peace, J. W. Bass, happened to be at Chippewa Falls and he came, 
over and performed the ceremony. The marriage took place at the 
Company's kitchen, and Mrs. W r ilson provided the supper. But it 
happened that when the second couple, Margaret Scott and Thomas 



Menomonu and Dunn Count;/, Wisconsin. 281 

Piercewell, wished to be united, there was no one near who had power 
to tie the knot. This difficulty waa obviated by a marri tract, 

which was drawn up and signed in I of witnesses. After the 

>ver, the parties invited their friends to the wedding 
feast, which consisted of pork and beans, and whisky, which were the 
staple articles of food at that time. A dance ended the festivif 
This singular marriage occurred in 1850, and proved satisfactory to 
both parties. 

FIRST DEATH AND BURIAL OF A WHITE WOMAN. 

The first death of a white woman in tin's section of country, also 
occurred in 1850. Mrs. Fannie Vale, probably the first woman who 

was a resident here, was the victim. She had lived a hard life, and, 
in the matter of civilization, she was but little in advance of her com- 
panions, the savages. Her husband, John Yale, was a rough, unedu- 
i old man, and withal much given to drink. After the old woman 
hid become ill, she was taken to the residence of one A. Lemon, 
whose wife was an Indian medicine-woman, that she might have the 
benefit of Mrs. Lemon's skill. One winter day, the tipsy John in- 
formed Mrs. Bullard, in his profane way, that Fannie was dying. 
Mrs Bullard did not believe the statement, but she immediately set 
out for Lemon's cabin, two miles distant, to ascertain whether or not 
it was true. She found the poor creature lying upon the floor, upon 
some rags and skins, half naked and already in the agonies of death. 
The look of blank amazement, that spread over the lady's face, con- 
vinced John that the visitor understood the exact situation ; and nudg- 
ing her with his elbow, he exclaimed: " You did not believe me when 
I told you that it was as true as h — 1 she was a d\ Then he 

dropped to the floor to the side of his wife, and, twisting a lock of her 
gray hair about his fingers, much as if he was about to scalp her, he 
product d a dull jack-knife, and tried to cut oil' the lock of hair, greatly 
to the annoyance of the sick woman, who writhed under the inflic- 
tion. "What are you doing, John? " asked Mrs. Bullard, rushing to 
tli.' rescue. "I'm going to have a lock of her hair; it's all I • 
'spect to have of her now," he replied. Mr~. Bullard begged him to 
it, promising that she would Bee that a lock of his wife's hair should 
ived forhim. Th id him, and crawling behind the stove, 

he soon fell into a drunken sleep. '■ itor and the Bquaw to 

attend to the dying woman, wh I eternityward sometime in the 

evening. Mrs. Bullard sent home for f her own clothes, in 

which to lay out the destitute creature's 1>" ly. A bo urd u te procured, 



282 American Sketch Booh. 

but there were no tables or chairs to hold the corpse, and the best that 
they could do was to place it on a couple of barrels, which held the 
winter's supply of pork and venison. When night came on, the 
Lemon family crawled into the one bed that the cabin contained, and 
Mrs. Bullard was left to keep the dreary watch alone. About midnight 
John Vale awoke from his drunken sleep, and getting up upon his 
haunches, like an animal, began to sing " Good-bye, Molly." Mrs. 
Bullard tried to hush him by asking if he knew that Fannie was dead. 
He replied with an oath that he knew it too well. Presently he got 
up, and, going to the side of the corpse, uncovered the face and looked 
long and earnestly at it. Finally he turned and faced the visitor 
with the remark : " God thinks he's done it, I 'spose. He might have 
took me as well as her, and I am going to drown myself. I'll be 
even with Him." Mrs. Bullard, knowing that the supply store 
would sell him no more whisky until after the funeral, did not try to 
detain him. She knew that it was whisky, not death, of which he 
was in search. The long, terrible night was ended, at last. The 
Lemon's arose and began preparations for breakfast. They swung 
the corpse one way, and took a piece of venison from one barrel; then 
they swung it the other way and fished a bit of pork out of the other 
barrel ; then the body was placed in its proper position, and left there 
until the time of the funeral. The only mode of travel was by trains 
— narrow one-horse sleighs, roughly constructed by the back-woods- 
men themselves. Three of these constituted the funeral equipage. A 
rough box answered for a coffin, and in order to carry it, the end 
board of one of the trains had to be removed. When all was ready 
for a start, some men had to ride on the train to hold the coffin on. 
The remainder of the people who had come to attend the funeral, viz. 
a few workmen and squaws, took seats on the other trains; and the 
funeral procession moved on. Up to this time, John had not made 
his appearance. In fact, nobody missed him, or cared where he was. 
Everybody in those days considered it his business to help bury or 
marry a neighbor, regardless of his or her religion, politics or social 
position. Then, knowing John's failings, no one took the trouble to 
hunt him up, and ask for instructions from him. It was a bright, 
winter morning. The snow was knee-deep where it was unbroken, 
and it was covered by a crust that made traveling irksome. The 
burial ground was about two miles and a half distant from Lemon's 
cabin, and was on the top of quite a steep hill. Up this hill the 
drivers found it impossible to draw the loaded trains, since the crusted 



Mi noun, nil and Dunn County^ Wisconsin. 

snow was in this place unbroken. In consequence, the people all 
got out, the men going ahead of the train thai carried the corpse, and 
the women waiting in the deep Bnow to consider whether or not it 
would he best to accompany the corpse to the grave. This left the 
coffin unheld and liable to slide off, an! it care was observed. 

But the horse of this single train found it no easy task to ascend the 
hill, and the driver was obliged most vigorously to apply the whip in 
i rder to start the animal at all. The result of such treatment was a 
sudden jerk that Bhook the coffin off, and as box, corpse and all n 
rolling down the hill, John Vale appeared suddenly upon the scene. 
Seeing that the driver was evidently unconscious of the accident, the 
bereaved husband began hellooing, gesturing and slapping his h u 
together in the wildest and most absurd manner. "Stop! stop! stop! 

I say. D — n you, don't you know you've left Fanny behind ? You've 
left Fannie, I say ! " The scene can be better imagined than de- 
scribed. The one white woman who witnessed it stood knee-deep in 
the snow, and, solemn as the occasion was, smiled visibly at the lu- 
dicrous picture. John succeeded finally in attracting the driver's 
attention. Then it being found impossible to draw the corpse up the 
steep hill on the train, the men clambered up, bearing it on their 
shoulders, and hid it from view by a shallow covering of frozen earth 
and snow. John, as well as Fannie, is now among the things that 
were, but the survivors who attended that funeral will nevei 

recall with a smile the first burial of a white woman in Dunn County. 
THE FIRST RESIDENT PREACHER. 
Some time about the year IN-"' I, a Bchool house was erected, ami. 
it having become necessary to engage a teacher, the energetic rap- 
tain Wilson conceived the idea of advertising for a person who would 
teach school and also conduct religious exercises. The advertise- 
nieiii -weird by a bashful bachelor, the Rev. Joshua I'ittnian. 

who was somewhat "set bark" when he learned that he was to 
"preach Sundays, teach school week-days, and pack shingles nights." 

II . however, eng I continued his labors until 1859, when a 
regular district school was organized. 

As [uence of going to meeting on Sundays, the won, en 

began to long for more fashionable apparel than they had hitherto 
wom. But so intense was the general sentiment against all hinds of 
lincry, that no one was bra o cast off the sun-bonnet for 

the dress bonnet of the outside world, until the advent of Mrs. Gr. M. 
bowler, who appeared in church one Sabbath with the then fashion- 



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able relation of the "sky-scraper" on her head. The bonnet, and 
not the sermon, was the center of attraction that day. Little billets 
of comment were passed around in the audience ; and, though few 
could have told what the sermon was about, all could give the exact 
dimensions and make-up of the first dress bonnet ever worn in Me- 
nomonie. 

In March, 1856, the county of Dunn was organized, with a small 
hamlet, known as Dunnville, for the county seat. It was named in 
honor of Judge Dunn, first judge of the district. But the village of 
Menomonie was laid out in 1859, and a vote of the people the same 
year, removed the county seat to the latter place. The first term of 
Circuit Court was held in September, 1S57, the resident lawyers 
being E. B. Bundy and C. S. Bundy ; the former of whom is still 
practicing law in Menomonie. 

But though Dunn county was organized in 1856, the majority of 
the United States lands did not come into market until 1860. The 
Fox River Improvement Company having received a munificent grant 
of land, in view of services to be rendered, by which a choice of gov- 
ernment lands was given them, had claimed a much larger portion 
than was their due. In 1860, their claim was adjusted. They chose 
the best lands west of the Red Cedar river, and gave up the lands on 
the east side, to the government. The government lands were imme- 
diately put into market, and were bought by substantial people, who 
soon surrounded themselves with all the comforts which farmers usu- 
ally have. 

NEWSPAPER HISTORY. 

Dunn county is indebted to Knapp, Stout & Co., for an early in- 
troduction of a newspaper press. The "Dunn County Lumberman" 
was started in April, 1860, with C. S. Bundy, a young lawyer of 
considerable ability, as editor. Upon the outbreak of the rebellion, 
the young editor exchanged the pen for the sword, and his brother, 
E. B. Bundy, an able lawyer, became editor. The third editor in 
order of time, was Thomas Phillips, a Democrat of some abilty, the 
paper meanwhile supporting the Republican party. In 1865, the 
concern was purchased by Dr. Benjamin. During this administration 
Charles Mears, now of the " Polk County (Minn.) Press," bought a 
half interest in the printing office, and upon his advent, April 7th, 
1866, the paper changed its name to the "Dunn County News" 
Early in September of the same "year, we find Mears' name with- 
drawn without even a good bye, and Or. Benjamin's continued alone. 



Menomonu and Dunn County t Wisconsin. 

A year later, Wilson & Messenger boughl out Dr. Benjamin, and S« 
W. Hunt took the editorial chair. This firm enlarged the paper and 
otherwise improved it. The next chai ge w to Flint & Weber 

the present proprietors, about 1 s 71. These men Bhow a degree of 
enterprise in the management of the "News," manifested by only a 
few proprietors of county newspapers. Their large, well-filled Bheet 
is printed entirely at home, and its "insides" havener oe so 

weak as to need patent ones. Unlike many of its cotempora 
the "Dunn County News" of 1875, will not cause the causual 
reader to undervalue the place which it repi 

Outside the line sketched were a couple of newspaporial 

spasms or episodes, which deserve notice in this connection. Anti- 
monopolistic feelings had become sufficiently warm to call for a new 
paper, about the year of grace, 1871, and Rev. E. Thompson brought 
in the "People's Press." Cts career was about equally brilliant and 
brief — it lived seven weeks on " faith alone," and expired. Next 
came the "Lean Wolf," by Van "Waters, an old editor of no mean 
ability, but bis '"Lean Wolf" died of chronic leanness. 

The moral deducible from these reformatory spasms may be this: 
It is abundantly benevolent to make two blades of gra 
where only one grew before; but it is not always practicable in □ 
paperdom. 

WAR TIMES— HEROIC WOMEN. 
When the war of the rebellion began, some of the wome - of Men- 
omonie proved tb heroic, indeed. T le village was new and 

small, and the families settled there did not feel able to endure more 
h it lships than were already theirs. Men were disp »se 1 to shrink from 
what they knew to be their duty, because to g i I » war was to 
their wives and children, mothers and si battl ) with the b 

alone. Some women, too, were faint-hearted, and clung to their 
9, faint and weeping, whenever the latl a dispo- 

sition to answer the nation's call. At this Btage of affairs, a few 
heroic women inspired every soul with patriotism, by their voices and 
their example. Miss Eliza Wilson, a young girl, daughter of Cap- 
tain A\ ilson, arose in a war meeting, pr< ss< d herself willing to 
accompany any comparfy that would organize; to 
members the hardships of the march, and to nurse them if them fell 
ill, or were wounded; a resolution which shi actually carried into efl 

Mrs. Bullard mad l several stirring 8] ch 8, which nerved the faint- 
hearted to action. One of >eches, we o >py from a "L 



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man " of that date. Only a portion of a company had been organized, 
and the heroic women were working to fill the ranks. There had just 
been a war meeting, and speaking of that, the " Lumberman " says : 

" After the meeting adjourned, the company formed in line and 
marched to the tune of Yankee Doodle through the principal streets 
and serenaded some of our citizens; among others, L. Bullard, Esq., 
who responded in his usual happy manner. Mrs. Bullard also came 
forward and said: " Soldiers, I regret that I have but one son to 
give to my country, he is a mere stripling, but the good book tells us 
that ' The battle is not to the strong; nor the race to the swift, but 
to him that endureth to the end.' Soldiers, I place him in your keep- 
ing, hoping and trusting that you will cling together like a band of 
brothers. You have taken your lives in your hands to go forth in 
defense of your county, and I hope that as long as there is a man left, 
you will not suffer our national flag to be dishonored. You leave be- 
hind you, friends who will watch your course, and if, as I am sure 
you will, you fight valiantly in the cause of your country, you will 
merit and receive their warmest gratitude and the plaudits of your 
friends and countrymen. If you lack one man, Mr. Bullard shall 
go too.' " 

Such heroism could not fail to bring forth a response ; and when 
Captain Wilson and his wife declared that they would own no son 
who shrank from going to the assistance of his country, the lagging 
ones stepped forward and were enrolled. 

The first company ever raised in Chippewa Valley was the Dunn 
County Pinery Rifles, afterwards Company K of the Fifth Wisconsin. 
Its officers were Capt. William Evans, Lieutenant C. R- Bayard and 
Lieutenant J. A. Hill. It was mustered into service July 13th, 1861, 
by Captain Mclntire, of the regular army. The officer in command 
was Col. Amasa Cobb. The regiment was accompanied to the field by 
Miss Eliza Wilson. The regiment was in several engagements, and 
won honors which secured for it the commendation of General Mc- 
Clellan. At"the battle of Golden Farm, Virginia, Capt. Evans was 
mortally wounded. His death occurred August 1st, 1862. The reg- 
iment had fared ill. Disease and the shots of the enemy had laid 
many of the soldiers low, and Company K had only a handful of men 
left, when a second company from Dunn County, headed by Captain 
J. M. Mott, reported ready for action. This new company took the 
place of the unfortunate one, and also became Company K of the 
Fifth Wisconsin Infantry. Captain Mott became so exhausted at the 
battle of Gettysburg that he was left on the march, and afterwards 
sent to Frederick City, Maryland, where he died, July 26th, 1863. 



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He was succeeded in command by Capt Henry C. Farwell. W 
mention only a few <>f 1 1 1 * - brave men who went in the two companies 
from Dunn County. Henry II. Stout, at the time of his death 
ond lieutenant of Company K, was a young man 
Free from all bad habits, pure hearted and brave, he had won the 
• and respect of all who knew him. He was killed in the action 
of S inia Court House, May LOth, 1864. His death to this 

day is remembered with deep regret. Henry C. Farwell, pron 
as first lieutenant May 14th, L8G3, was wounded November 7th, 
1863, in the action of Brandy Station, Virginia, of the officers who 
ifely through, We note the names of James Deerey, Thomas 
Blair, Julius A. Hill, T. S. West, C. S. Bundy, M. II. Wilson and 
M. W. Heller. 

HIGH WATER. 

fore closing the early history of Menomonie, the writer wis! 
to intuition the high water freshets, which have occurred at different 
periods. On the 12th of June, 1839, the water was higher in both 
the Chippewa and Red Cedarrivers, than it has horn since, or was 
known to be before that time, by the oMest settler, either white man 
or Indian. At that time the water overflowed all the bottom lands, 
and at the l>illes of the Chippewa it was eighteen feet above the or- 
dinary height of the river. The few people who were then living on 
the Red Cedar and the Chippewa, were frightened, and thought that 
Lake Superior had broken through to the head waters of those 
streams, and was empting itself into the Mississippi by those outlets. 
In L846, the water wasagain very high in the Mississippi ; and in l v !7 
the water in the Chippewa and Red Cedar was so very high that the 

•f 11. S. All. -n & Co.'s ! .11 a: Chippewa Falls, broke loose and 

went adrift. The last high water of n in L859, which \\a- a 

very disasterouj year for lumbermen, as lumber sold as low as from 

six dollars :<> eight dollars and fifty cents per thousand f 

DUNN COUNTY IN 1873. 

Dunn County contains twenty-four townships, and an area of 

552,960 acres. The eastern portion c of prairie lands; the 

in;-, and covered by imme I C n'ppewa 

river waters the s< part; the Ban Galla the Bouthwest; while 

tie' Red Cedar runs through from u nth t i south. These streams and 

their tributaries furnish nui i null powers. Hard woods 

and sand-tone and hm abound. The chief manufacturing in- 

I is lumbering. A.b at 6 >,000,000 feet of lumber are manufac- 



288 American Sketch Book. 

tured annually. The county is crossed from east to west by the 
West Wisconsin Railway, bringing it into direct connection with the 
outside world. 

The present village of Menomonie consists of a population of about 
three thousand five hundred people, and is one of the most pictur- 
esque of inland towns. The dam on which Knapp, Stout & Co.s 
mammoth saw and grist mills are situated, forms a lake a mile and a 
half long by over three-fourths of a mile wide. This lake is bounded 
on the east by picturesque bluffs or points of land, upon one of which, 
a mile from the village, is located the beautiful cemetery, recently laid 
out and platted by those widely and favorably known landscape archi- 
tects, Cleveland & French, of Chicago. On the southwest of this 
lake, on high ground, is situated the residence of Mr. Andrew Tainter, 
which rivals in elegance any of the suburban villas of the large east- 
ern cities. A little to the north of Mr. Tainter's grounds, is Captain 
Wilson's hospitable and comfortable mansion. At the outlet of this 
lake is built a large and substantial dam, of unique construction with 
numerous gates and chute. Near this dam, and on the west or right 
bank of the river, are located the different and numerous buildings, 
stores, warehouses, machine shop, foundry, blacksmith and wagon 
shops, boarding houses, dwelling and tenant houses, etc., etc, neces- 
sary to carry on the great business of this Lumbering Company. Here 
also Wilson Creek empties its waters into this great reservoir, a few 
rods above the dam, on the main Red Cedar river. This creek is a 
beautiful and romantic stream, bordered with high, rocky bluffs ; it 
abounds in speckled trout. Its rapid current is stayed near its outlet 
by the construction of a dam, which supplies the power to run the 
Company's shingle and planing mills. 

After passing out of the lake or mill pond, the Red Cedar (called 
by the citizens the "Menomonie River") again assumes its natural 
size, and with a rapid current runs over a rocky bed, in a westerly 
course, one fourth of a mile, and then turns southward. On a high 
plateau on the northwest, or right bank of this rapid stream, in a 
picturesque and romantic spot among the pines, and overlooking the 
river, is the residence of Mr. J. H. Knapp. One of the partners of 
the firm of Knapp, Stout & Co., Mr. T. B. Wilson, formerly of Reels 
Landing, Minnesota, has lately taken up his residence in Menomonie, 
and has built a house on the village side, attractive in style and pleas- 
antly situated, and which adds to the good appearance of the town. 

The village side of the river has many recent settlers, some of 



M nomonie and Dunn Count if, Wtscon 

whom are doing a business which rivals, in some (if its branches, 
the famous company on the other Bide ; and this Bide, with il 
churches, court-house, school-houses, printing office and dwellii 
constitute the village proper. The native trees, on both Bides, have, 
in many places, been left standing, and lend much of the pictur- 
esque to the appearance of the village. 

There are several public buildings here worthy of note. The 
court house, built in 1871, is a brick structure, with dressed stone 
trimmings, and cost forty-five thousand dollars. Canute Thompson 
was the contractor, and his work is proof sufficient of his superior 
ability. The public school building, erected in L869, is one of the 
in this part of the state, and was built at an expense of nearly 
twenty thousand dollars. In 1873, school district number one built a 
second school-house in Coddington's addition, at a cost of five thous- 
and dollars. During the winter of 1^72, the county jail, a wooden 
structure, was burned, and in 1874, a new brick building, for the same 
purpose, was built under contract, by Ole Olson, for ten thousand 
dollars. The Baptists have two churches. The first of these was 
built and furnished by Captain Wilson. It is frescoed, upholstered 
with rep, lighted with gas, and furnished with an expensive organ. 
les these there are several other tasty churches. The only thing 
in the line of public buildings, which Menomonie seems to lack, is a 
first-class hotel. There arc three or four good hotel buildings 
but none of them are conducted in a manner in keeping with the en- 
terprise of the village. The Menomonie House, kept by C. II. Mc- 
Cabe, is said to be the best of the three. It belongs to Knapp, 
Stout & Co., and is for sale. 

Menomonie has also a Reading Room. Some of the enterprit 
ladies, with a view toward keeping the young men from saloon-. 
clubbed together and opened an establishment where the young folks 
could spend their evenings. They intend to have, in addition to the 
reading room, a refreshment room. This ie a highly praise-worthy 
institution, and if every community would establish such in its midst, 
the saloons would in time have to close for lack of custom. Mrs. M. 
L. Mott. widow of the lamented < v ipt. M. L. Mott, is the librarian of 
the Menomonie Reading Room. 

Though the citizens, on both sides of the river, unite in establishing 
good institutions, there seems to be a feeling of rivalry existing be- 
tween the two sides of the river, or rather between many of the 

business men of Menominie proper and Knapp, Stout A. Co. The 



290 American Sketch Booh 

company, like all powerful organizations, is called a monopoly, and 
as such is frequently fought at elections, town meetings, etc ; and it 
often, though not always, wins the victory. The sensitive, claim 
quite truly, that Menomonie is a flourishing village in itself, indepen- 
dent of the company that started it into life. But for all this, it can- 
not be denied, by the unbiased, that the Company is the great motive 
power of the community, as it furnishes employment for hundreds of 
men, while its wealth is constantly enriching and adding to the beauty 
of the village. 

Menomonie was originally platted by Knapp, Stout & Co. I. 
Coddington made an addition to the village, in 18G5, of thirty-two 
blocks. The lots in this addition, at first sold at twenty-five dollars 
each. They now bring three hundred dollars and upward. Martin 
H. Wilson and Mrs. E. Morgan, have also made additions to 
Menomonie. 

Several smart villages beside Menomonie have sprung up in Dunn 
county. One of these is Dunnville, situated near the mouth of Red 
Cedar river, twelve miles south of Menomonie. It was settled in 
1850. A man named Lamb was the first settler. Amos Colburn 
kept the first hotel in Dunville. John McCauley took up his resi- 
dence then in 1853. A large portion of Dunville is owned by Enapp, 
Stout & Co. 

Eau Galla, located in the southwest part of the hard woods, is a 
thriving little village on the Eau Galla river. It, like most other 
places in Dunn county, is the center of a lumbering district. The 
first mill at Eau Galla was built in 18-10, under the direction of 
Savage, Wales & Co. This firm sold to Carson & Eaton in 1844, who 
built a large steam mill in 1852, which had the misfortune of being 
burned in 1 802, A mill with three gang saws was erected and run- 
ning the next year. Later, Eaton sold out his interest in the prop- 
erty to E. D. Rand, of Burlington, and the firm has since been Carson 
& Rand. This company also have a large flouring mill at Eau Galla. 
A mill was built at Cedar Falls in 1859, by Burry & McCormick. 
Later, it passed into the hands of Maxwell, McGilton & Co., who 
owned it until a few years ago, when Jewett & Son bought it at Sher- 
iff's sale. Quite a little village is springing up at this point. 

The Downsville mill was built in 18G0 by Capt. Downs, on a site 
where Ebenezcr Thompson had attempted to build a mill a few years 
before, but failed on account of a freshet which destroyed his work and 
impoverished him. The mill was bought by Knapp, Stout & Co., who 



Menoiimnl'. and Dunn County^ W in. 291 

enlarged and improved it. Here is also a little village, which is 
steadily improving. Downsville is situated on the Red Cedar river, 
eight miles Bouth of Menomonie. 

THE LIQUOR WAR. 

In the year 1874, a few of tl ead women of Menomonie re- 

solved to put a Btop to the liquor traffic, and their influence at the 
polls was such that a law, forbidding its sale, waa passed. The prac- 
ticability of such a law in a single town is questioned by many; but 
having caused its adoption, the women were determined that those who 
broke it should be punished. It was like one man fighting an army, 
but women who could show such heroism when their country was 
needing aid, would not he likely to falter themselves, or fail to instill 
in their (laughters' minds some of their own heroism, at a time when 
the law was being transgressed. A caustic old settler, in a no 

"The last great social spasm in Menomonie was the anti-liquor 
of last Bpring; and the anties, or, as some' wags put it. the 
••aunties," carried the day. The ladies are now prosecuting the 
saloon-men, with unflagging zeal, and average success. l'>ut the end 
is not yet. The coming election promises to he ardent, spirits or oo 
spirits." 

Since the commencement of the liquor war of this place, the vexed 
problem of whether or not lager-beer is intoxicating, has been decided 
in the negative. A brewer was arrested for selling a keg of beer to one 
of the citizens, lie was fined, bui appealed his case to a higher court. 
t excitement prevailed when it was brought before Judge Hum- 
prey. Several men swore that beer can intoxicate, and several nun 
that it can not. The judge seemed to he Blightly prejudiced in favor 
of the beer, for he demanded to know of the temperance men how 
they km w beer to he intoxicating, and if it had ever intoxicated them. 
They, of course, did not lik e to own to such a weakness, and cited 
what they had seen. But he waived Mich evidence, telling them that 
they must beable to speak from experience or not at all. He 
moreover, that he had nothing to do with any beerexce] tents 

of that particular keg in question, which had been Beized and brought 
mrt as evidence. What he wished to decide was whether that 
keg contained any intoxicating beverage. By an order given, the 
com ted, but as it had been two days tapped, and the 

beer was really "flat," the decision was that that particular keg con 
tail ed nothing that could intoxicate any one ; and a verdict was ren- 



292 American Sketch Booh. 

dered in accordance with the facts. Since then, it is said, the brewer 
pursues his regular vocation unmolested by the law. 

Another case was equally as remarkable. While Justice Hull was 
in the act of fining a saloon-keeper for breaking the liquor law, a 
man fresh from the dentist's hands, came into Hull's drug store to 
get some whisky to rinse his bleeding mouth. A Mr. Johnson, a 
school teacher, with no thought except to be kind, asked Justice Hull 
if he should get the desired article. Hull, whether thinking of the 
question or not, nodded assent; at least, so thought the questioner, 
and he poured a small amount into a glass. This was used for the 
purpose mentioned, after which the patient laid down a ten-cent 
script in payment, and Johnson put it into the money-drawer. The 
saloon-keeper who had been fined, saw the whole proceedings, and he 
immediately had the teacher arrested for selling liquor. Johnson 
called on Hull to witness his innocence ; but, Hull disclaiming any 
knowledge of the affair, the former was fined ten dollars and costs for 
violating the liquor law. He will probably harden his heart in future 
when suffering humanity wants whisky, especially if he is in a town 
where no licenses are granted. 

SETTLERS OF MENOMONIE AND DUNN COUNTY. 

In a work like this, it is impossible to give an complete list of the 
settlers of the county, or even of the village of Menomonie. Only a 
few of the older and more prominent ones will be noticed in this 
article, and to each of these but a short space can be devoted, on ac- 
count of lack of room. 

Jo. Benson, an old man in the employment of Knapp, Stout & Co., 
has lived in Menomonie over forty years. He is the man who claims 
to have been in the expedition, said to have been under command of 
Jeff. Davis, that visited this county at an early day. 

Perry Curtis opened a farm in Dunn county, in 1846. It is situ- 
ated near Eau Galla mill, and is owned in part by Carson & Eaton. 
Another farm was owned by Frank Ames and sons in 1847. They 
were among the first farmers in the county. 

Mud Creek Valley, east of Menomonie, had B. Fowler for its first 
settler. This was in 1852. The Massey settlement commenced by 
the advent of H. II. Steves in 1856. 

Captain Moore laid out a farm of twenty-two hundred acres, about 
twelve miles up the Red Cedar, which he sold to Knapp, Stout & Co. 
in 1865. 



Menomonii and. Dunn Sounty^ Wisconsin. 293 

Sherburne Prairie, ;i little northeast ol Mcnoi ti ■. was laid out 

into farms by Sherburne & Harrington. 

I>. B. Downs, now of Eau Claire, settled here soon afterthe arrival 
of the Bullards. 

Levi Vance, an Indian trader, now dead, visited this part of the 
country forty-seven years ago, and made his home here until called 
to another. He built the first hotel in Menomonie proper which he 
named the Vance House. This house, now called the Union House, 
is kept by his 8on-in-law, Peter Perrault at th< present time. 

John Rogler, tinner, began working for the company in \ < - , 'i-. At 
the breaking out of the war he entered the army, and when the 
nation was again blessed with peace, he took up bis tools a second 
time at the old pla 

Simon Mar iral foreman of outside matters, for Knapp, 

Stout & Co., came to work for said company in L854. He was the 
first Boldier to enlist in Chippewa Valley, for the war of the rebellion 
and one of three who would not wait for a company to b i raised be- 
fore reporting himself ready for action, li rolled at Madison, 

as orderly sergeant of Company P>. of the Sixth Infantry, and 
wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. In 1864, he was elected sher- 
iff of l>unn county. 

William Warren, blacksmith, has worked for Knapp, Si >ut & ' 
the entire thirteen years of his residence in Menomonie. 

A. J. Depewhas lived in Dunn county since 1855. He is a mill- 
wright, and has been in the employ of the company for over eleven 
years. 

About the year L857, William McKahan arrived in Menomonie 
with his family, consisting <>f himself, wife, three sons and four 
daught ■!■-, For a nu . McKahan iloyed by 

Knapp, Stout & Co., as head clerk in their store; it was through the 
influence of Mr. John 11. Knapp that they left their many friend- in 
Washington, Pennsylvania, and came to this place. While still em- 
ployed by the Company, he purchased a tract of land six miles from 

omonie, and afterward- improved it, and made it his home fi t 
year. But finding the work too laborious for a man of his advanced 
year-, he left the farm came hack to the village, and purchased a 
house, in which he resided at the time of his death. After leaving 
the farm he ownel a livery stable, ami for two is proprietor 

of the Menomonie House. The d ' which he died was paral- 

ysis. He was confined to his room for two years previous to his 
death, which occurred October l"th, l s T_'. 



294 American Sketch Booh. 

His estimable wife survived him but a few weeks- She died of 
apoplexy, November 27th. 1872, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where 
she had gone to spend the winter with her daughters, Mrs. Downs and 
Mrs, Newsom. Of Mr. and Mrs. McKahan's children, their three 
sons are living in the village. James B. is engaged in the mercantile 
business, and Samuel D. has been postmaster for the last four years, 
filling that office creditably to himself, and to the satisfaction of the 
people. The four daughters, Mrs. Downs, Mrs. Newson, Mrs. Keith 
and Miss Sarah E. McKahan are in Minneapolis, Minnesota. J. B. 
McKahan was the first merchant on the east side of the river, and 
next to Knapp, Stout & Co., in order of time, in the town. He 
opened up in 1860, with a cash capital of one hundred and fifty-seven 
dollars, and a stock of one hundred and seventy -five dollars, owing 
on his first invoice eighteen dollars. His store was the first in the 
village proper, and the builders of this and several of the buildings 
which soon after followed, had to clear away the brush before laying 
the foundations. J. B. McKahan carries a large stock of general 
merchandise, and is accounted one of the rich men of the village, 
although he was often taunted in the commencement by towns-people, 
who offered him ten dollars for his stock. 

Dr. W. A. Burry, a noted optician, has had eighteen years experi- 
ence in Dunn County. His residence is at Cedar Falls. 

In 1858, G. M. Fowler, millwright and surveyor, visited Men- 
omonie for the purpose of looking up a new location. While passing 
through the six-mile woods between this place and Lake Pepin on his 
way hither, he met a party of Sioux warriors, adorned with the 
scalps and trophies of a victory after a recent battle with the Chip- 
pewas. The sight was more curious than pleasant to a man who had 
known nothing of pioneer life. But he was pleased with the country 
and decided to settle in it, which he did during the next year. Mr. 
Fowler served as justice of the peace for three years, commencing in 
1802, and was elected county surveyor in 18G7, which position he 
filled for two years. Mrs. G. M. Fowler opened the first millinery 
store and the second store of any kind started in Menomonie proper, 
in the year 1802 in her own house. She is now doing buiness on 
Thirty-fourth street, and has on hand one of the largest and finest 
assortments of goods to be found in Chippewa Valley. She is also 
agent for the Victor sewing machine, and her sales in this branch of 
business alone have amounted to over $5,000 in two years time. The 
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three store building, a photograph gallery, and a fine private residence. 
The private residence, they gave up to the county officers, upon the 
removal of the county seat from Dunnville to this place. It was 
occupied by them three years, and until county buildings could be 
i. William Fowler, the only surviving son of this enterprising 
family, is an accomplished musician, and, though only seventeen 
years old, is a thorough and successful teacher of the piano forte. He 
is also agent for the New England organ. 

X. C. Eytcheson began logging for Knapp, Stout & Co., twenty- 
live years ago, in company with the man Wickham, who was murdered 
by the Indians. Later, he bought a large farm, which he was unfor- 
tunate enough to lose in some kind of a speculation. He was the 
builder of the Menomonie House, which he run for sixteen months, 
and then sold to the Company. He is now a dealer in boots and 
.-hoes and groceriers. (In the same store, the writer found an old 
woman who evidently deals largely in tongue; but judging from ap- 
pears would not Like to recommend the article.) 

Jacob Miller, painter and artist, has been in Menomonie since L856. 

Dr. E. G. Benjamin the first resident practitioner was among the 
first builders-up of the village proper, was owner and editor of the 
'* Dunn County News " about two years: was appointed and after- 
wards elected Countv Judge, and filled other smaller offices. 

Samuel W. Hunt, attorney at law, located in Menomonie in the 
month of March, L866. He was District Attorney in 1867 and l£ 
and member of the Assembly in 1868. He was also at one time 
editor of the " Dunn County New.-.*' lie is -till in Menomonie, en- 
g iged in the practice of law. 

S B. French cam:? to Dunn County in November, L853, and for 
fourteen years following that time, was book-keeper for Knapp, Stout 
& Co. Of late years, he has ! H -en engaged in banking, real e 
and merchandise. 'His 3tore on Thirty fourth street offers one of the 
best assortment of goods to be found in Chippewa Valley. His wife 
was Virginia Bullard, daughter of linen/,.) Bullard, one of the first 
Bettlera of Menomonie. 

Theodo millwright and machinist, has worked seventi 

years for Knapp, Stout & Co 

\V. M. Dunn, filer in the Company's mill, became a resident of the 
county in 1 s -~. I 

M. Halfhide has worked thirteen year- for the Compan 

B. S. Thome, wagon maker, claims seventeen years residence in this 
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296 American Sketch Boole. 

part of the country, ten years of which he has been in the employ of 
the Company. 

Frederick Bonnell, now largely engaged in photography, came to 
this village in 1869, from Eau Claire. After putting up a gallery 
and finding it too small for the amount of work he had to do, he 
erected a building, two stories in height, on Thirty-fourth street. The 
whole of this large building is occupied as a gallery. The engraving 
in this book is from a photograph taken by him. 

George Tonnar, a German-American, emigrated from Dubuque in 
1869, and settled here. He started in the drug business in November, 
1871, on Thirty-fourth street, and he still reports trade in his line as 
brisk. He was elected in 1874 as Superintendent of Public Schools, 
and resigned on account of business pressure. He is now a Justice 
of the Peace, and between the men who will not obey the liquor law 
and the women who declare the law shall be obeyed, he has found 
his duties rather irksome. 

J. B. Sprague, proprietor of the Stage Line from Menomonie to 
Rice Lake, located at Menomonie in 1856. 

H. S. Hull became a resident of Menomonie in 1805. He went 
into business as a druggist with Dr. Pease, in a building now occu- 
pied by Hunt & Freeman, lawyers. At the end of the year he bought 
out the doctor's interest. He is still in the business on Thirty-fourth 
street. 

E. J. Newsom, assistant postmaster, has had but eighteen months 
residence in Menomonie. He is now establishing a " Badger State 
Publishing Agency," which promises to be a complete success. 

Frank E. Pease, architect and builder, became a resident of Men- 
omonie in 1861, and erected a drug store, which was the fourth build- 
ing in the village proper. Dr. W. C. Pease had his office, there. 
Frank enlisted in 1863. At the close of the war he went to Michi- 
gan. In 1873, he returned to Menomonie, bringing his family with 
him. He has the contract to build the Episcopal church. 

John Noulan, lumberman, has been in Menomonie since November* 
1854. 

Dr. J. M. G cites located in Menomonie in 1870. lie reports a very 
chequered life. He married young, and was obliged to pursue his 
studies after he had a family. He graduated at Jefferson Medical 
College, only a short time previous to his coming to Menomonie ; 
though he had treated chronic diseases for over fifteen years by med- 
icine and magnetism combined. He is now writing a book, which he 



Menomonu and Dunn Sounty, Wisconsin. 291 

entitles "Physioboethic Practice." lie claims that a physii ian can 

simply assist nature by medicines — that drugs act eithe ally, 

physiologically, alopathically, or bomeopathically, and gives an illus- 
tration of the action of each. He also endeavors to Bhow why small 
quantities of medicine, under certain conditions, produce marked and 
immediate results. The new theory is claimed to be based on the 
experiments made upon the nervous system by Brown, Dubois, Ray- 
mond and others. He aims to have the hook gotten up in a manner 
that all may understand. It will quite likely inert with attention 
from all schools of practice. 

F. J. McLean, attorney at law, began practice here in 1868. 

r. C. Holmes, dealer in furniture, carpeting, etc., took up his resi- 
dence here in 1860. 

II. C. Blenis, contractor and builder, settled in Menomonie in l s 7 1 . 

l>r. \Y. F. Nichols began practice in Menomonie in 1869, after 
having spent four years in the medical department of the army. He 
is erecting a building for the accommodation of patients requiring 
surgical treatment, his rapidly increasing practice having made Mich 
an institution necessary. 

Thomas Condon, grocer on Thirty-fourth street, did not begin 
business here until l v 74. 

William Schultts and Albert Quilling, merchants on Main street, 
came to this place in 1855. They were poor boys, and worked as 
day laborers to lay the foundation of a prosperous busil They 

built the large store which they now occupy. 

T. A. Goodman, proprietor Goodman's wagon and carriage -hop-. 
settled here in 1863. 

II. C. Bierce, attorney at law. dates his time of settlement here 
from 1871. 

G. Ordcman, proprietor of Ordeman's paint shop and stove, lo- 
cated on Mud Creek eighteen years ago. Three years after, he c 

to Menomonie and engaged in his present busini 

J. P. Edwards visited Menomonie in 1860. Six years later he 
me a permanent settler here, and started :i sash, door and blind 
factory, which was burned in L870 by an incendiary. In l v 7J, in 
company with his son, he engaged in the hardware business. The 
firm, known as Edward.- & S m. has two large Btoreson Thirty-fourth 
street, and monopolizes the hardware business of Menomonie proper. 

•lames Galloway and family settled her.' in 1 85 | He worked for 
Knapji, Stout & Co., about two yen-, then began farming near the 



298 American Sketch Book. 

village, at which business he still continues. He has two sons' 
George and William, the former of these is the village drayman ; the 
latter is studying for the ministry. 

T. S. Heller looked in on the Dunn county people in 1857, but did 
not become a permanent settler until 1860. Previous to the war, he 
kept the Tainter House at Dunnville, for a season. He enlisted sub- 
sequently, and served in the army for over three years. Upon his 
return, he became landlord of the Menomonie House, and filled that 
position for a year. He is now engaged in the insurance business. 

Joseph Brunk, proprietor of Brunk's Mills, four and a half miles 
from Menomonie, has been a resident of Dunn county for over eleven 
years. 

George K. Irvine, for whom living's Creek was named, and for- 
merly proprietor of Irvine's Mills, has resided here for over twenty 
years. 

E. F. Larkham came to Dunn county in 18(33. He is now Super- 
intendent of Knapp, Stout & Co.'s lumber yard. 

A. J. Brunelle, millwright, located at Menomonie in 1854, and has 
worked for Knapp, Stout & Co., ever since. 

Carroll Lucus located at Mud Creek, in August, 1854. In 1855, 
he brought his family in his new home. Here he remained on a farm 
until 1806, when the people of Dunn county spoiled a good farmer in 
order to have a good County Treasurer. This latter position he is 
still holding. He has also served four years as County Superinten- 
dent of Schools. 

John Kelly, Jr., the present Register of Deeds, came to Dunn 
county in 1850. His regular business is farming. 



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THE CATHOLICS. 

THE church of the Emaculate Conception claims to be the first 
sectarian religious society of Menomonie. The church build- 
ing was commenced April, 1861, under the direction of Father 
Sheriden ; but it was not completed until 1805. The funds for 



Religious Societies of Menomonie. 

building purposes were raised by the young men of the parish. A 
parsonage was erected iu L874. The present pastor is the B 
Keller, diocese of La Cros-e. The present trustees are Messrs. John 
Noulan, Peter Lam oer and Thomas McKana. The parish oow num 
bers about five hundred persons, and is in a thriving condition. 

The Catholics here, as in many other places, are interesting them- 
selves in the temperauce cause — not to make a compulsory law, but 
to be the m sans of influencing people, by right of reason and 

■'■ r , to take up mi the temperance side. It is a good move, for the 
Catholics have the power to do more in putting down liquor drinking, 
than all the other societies combined, if they go rightly to work, ami 
labor with a will. — * * 

METHODISTS. 

The - iciety of the M, B. < 'hurch of Menomonie, was organized by 
Rev. S. Howies, in the fall of 1857. The rince L857 t<> the 

present date, has been under the guardianship of the following 
Biding Elders : Rev. S. Bowles, C. Hobcrt, M. Sorin, T. C. Golden, 
W. c ,bbin, J. B. Raynolds and W. S. Wright. The following min- 
bave "ii the regularly appointed ; astors to the society since 
rganization to the present date : Rev. W.N. Darnell, J. Gru 
.1. I> S. Bavens till I860. In 1861, J. 15. Raynolds was ap 

pointed and his successors in office were D. P. Knapp, W. Woodley, 
W. Haw, T. C. G »lden, W. W. Bashell, S. 0. Brown, G. D. Brown, 
Johu Bell, B. S. Havens for the lecond time; and at the close of four 
months prosperous labor, Mr. Havens was transferred to the West 
Texas conference, and Rev. J. McClanewas appointed at Men imonie. 

- from the organization of thesoeiety, its members numb 
fifty. The highest number of members the society ever attained was 
ninety. It ha- at present seventy-five members. In L864, the soi 
organized a hoard of trustees ; and in the spring of 1866 tin- building 
of the Centenary M. B. Church of Menomonie was commenced, under 
the direction of W. Wilson, A. .1. Messenger and W. Haw, building 
committee. The church was finished and dedicated in L867, at a 
of live thousand dollars, all contril ■ growth 

and moral influence of this society have been various under the 

ir bad management, nut always popular, y 
seeking to maintain the spirit of primitive Christianity, "pi ice on 
earth and g 1 will to man.'* Under the preaching of its faithful 

and in answer to the prayers of it< devoted m imbers, the altar ol 

its church has frequently b ■ lei with earnest penitents. Here 



300 American Sketch Booh. 

hundreds have been blessed, and have gone out from this society to 
become a blessing to the world. 

The Sunday school of this society numbers eighty members, and is 
under the management of Mr. Joseph Gates, Superintendent, and his 
efficient corps of teachers. The library of the school numbers some 
three hundred volumes. Seventy-six members of the school have 
signed and agreed to keep the following temperence pledge : " I hereby 
promise not to use bad words, either in or out of school; not to chew 
or smoke tobacco, and not to drink intoxicating liquors so long as I 
am a member of this school. So help me God, and keep me steadfast 
in the due performance of the same." — J. mcclane. 

THE CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY. 
Rev. John C. Sherwin, an agent of the A. H. M. S., visited Men- 
omonie in October, 1850, and endeavored to secure a missionary who 
would establish a Congregational society at this place. His success, 
however, was not equal to his wishes; for it was not until December, 
1861, that a society was organized. This was under the ministry of 
Rev. Philo Canfield, who was one of the seven members that formed 
the organization. In April, 1863, five more persons united with the 
church. A month later, Rev. Piiilo Canfield resigned his care of the 
church, and the little flock remained without a shepherd until the fall 
of 1864, at which time Rev. F. M. lams received a commission from 
the A. II. M. S. to preside over it. Mr. lams preached his farewell 
sermon to his church in November of the next year, on account of 
his having embraced the Baptist creed. June 1st, 1868, Rev. John 
C- Sherwin took the pastorate. The members at the commencement 
of his labors, numbered only fifteen. Services at this time were held 
in a small, unfinished building, now used as a private residence. At 
the approach of winter, the Menomonie House Hall was secured for 
this purpose, and continued to be used by the society until the erec- 
tion of the Congregational church, in 1870. This building cost nearly 
nine thousand dollars, and J. II. Knapp, Esq. was the prime mover 
in its erection. It was dedicated October 21st, 1870. The member- 
ship of the church now numbers eighty persons. — v. 

GRACE CHURCH MISSION. 

Episcopal service was first held in Menomonie in the summer of 

1870, by Rev. R. F. Page of Eau Claire; and occasional service was 

held from that time until 1872, when a mission was organized under 

direction of Bishop Armitage. In October of the same year the 



Religion 8 Societies of Menomonie. 301 

ladies Formed a society, Mrs. G. II. Barwise being president ; Mi 
B, Bundy, vice president ; Mrs. F. II. Weber, secrel IMrs. R. 

Macauley, treasurer. It was for the purpose of purchasing lots on 
which to rivet a church and parsonage, which they succeeded in doing 
in March, L873, completing their payments for the -nine in May, 
l v 7l. The whole sum paid for the lots was sis hundred dollars, and 
was raised by the efforts of the ladies. A church that will cosl three 
thousand dollars is no^i in process of erection. — B. 

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH . 

The Rev. Mr. Pittman, who taught the Erst day Bchool in Menom- 
onie, and preached on the Sabbath, was a Baptist. In 1861, R .. 
Amasa Gale, at that time the Baptist State Missionary, agent for 
Minnesota and a portion of Wisconsin, held a protracted meeting in 
Menomonie, resulting, by the blessing of God, in the conversion of 
Beveral persons, Mrs. Captain Wilson and others. It may be of 
interesl to add, that Mr. Gale, having prosecuted with great sue 
his work in Minnesota for sixteen years, in making the tour of Pales- 
tine, died in Joppa, November, 25th, 1 S 7I. Three weeks previous to 
Ins death, he preached a Bermon and immersed one of his traveling 
companions in the Jordan, at the place wher was baptized. A 

vcar subsequent to the above named protracted meeting, the Rev. 
Morgan Edwards, of Fort Madison, [owa, held a Beries of meetings 
in Menomonie, resulting under God, in the conversion of a goodly 
number, who, together with some who were converted in the former 
meeting, were immersed by Mr. Edwards, The Menomonie First 
Baptist Church, was organized December 1.8th, L864. But little, 
however, was done by way of sustaining public Bervices, till October 
I, when the pastorate of W. W. Ames, the present encumbent, 
commenced. At an early date, an article was incorporated into 
church covenant, disfellowshipping all aecret organizations, believing 
the principle of Bworn secrecy to be incompatible with Sis gospel who 
said: " Ye are the light of the world; a city set upon a hill cannot be 
bid. Neither do men light a oandle and put it under a bushel, but 
on a candlestick, that it may give light to all that are in the hou 
Another article was incorporated, discountenancing the manufae 
ture, .-ale and us,- of intoxioating drinks, and pledging the churoh 
to the use of unfermented wine only, at the communion. The pastor 
preached every other Sabbath for two years, at the end of which time 
u neat and convenient chape! was d for the use of the churoh 



302 American Sketch Book. 

in that place. At the same time, the pastor and his wife organized a 
Mission Bible School at Sherburne Prairie, rive miles from Menomo- 
nie, August, 1867, which was superintended Mrs. Ames until the 
spring of 1871. Since that time, the school has been classified and 
carried on mostly by members of the Menomonie church, who, during 
the year 1870, built a beautiful chapel for the school and preaching 
services connected with it ; which chapel makes a pleasant, attractive 
Sabbath home for the church-going people of the Prairie, and the 
means of healthful activity to members of the Menomonie church. It 
should be said that some of the Prairie people, and others, contributed 
towards the chapel, and that, financially, the school is self-sustaining. 
The Menomonie First Baptist Church organized its home school at 
Knapp, Stout & Co.'s hall, January, 1869. Capt. William Wilson 
was appointed Superintendent, and has served until the present time. 
Some twelve hundred persons have belonged to the school, a large 
percentage of whom were children of foreigners. Many of this 
number are now scattered over this state, and other states and terri- 
tories, carrying with them the knowledge of bible truths, ' ; which are 
able to make them wise unto salvation," and cause u the desert to 
bud and blossom as the rose." 

Capt- Wilson, converted under the pleadings of Mr. Edwards, and 
with his wife and others immersed by him, sought and found admission 
to the church as early as January, 1803. Believing that God put it 
in his heart to do so, he built and furnished, at his own expense, the 
beautiful house of worship now occupied by the church and school, 
and which was dedicated March 12th, 1871. Rev. J. W. Fish, Baptist 
State Missionary Agent for Wisconsin, preached the dedication ser- 
mon, and continued to preach and assist the pastor in a series of 
meetings for two weeks, resulting in the addition of considerable num- 

CD > CD 

hers to the church. About a year afterwards, he labored in another 
protracted meeting, with marked results. Thus the new house dedi- 
cated to God was immediately filled with tokens of the divine presence 
and power- Rev. C. H. Colver served as pastor one year, ending 
March, 1874. The church and school have put in circulation a vast 
amount of Christian literature, which has been scattered abroad to* 
bless many who otherwise would have been almost without religious 
reading. The church has passed through seasons of great apparent 
prosperity, and also of severe trial ; but can say " hitherto hath the 
Lord helped us," and are resolved, by His aid, to defend and propa- 
gate " the faith once delivered to the saints." — w. \v. ames. 



Kiiapp, Stout m' Company. 303 

OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. 

A division having occurred in the First Baptist Church of Menom- 
onie, the Olivet Baptist Church was organized May L2th, 1874, 
was composed entirely of persons who had been members of the I 
Baptist Church. h is Calvenistic, having adopted the old New 
Sampshire confession of faith, aa found in J. Newton Brown's Ency- 
clopedia of Religious Knowledge. May 27th, L874, it was in due 
form unanimously recognized as r Baptist Church, by an 

Ecclesiastical Council, called for that pu , of which council R iv. 

T. E. Keeley of Hudson, was Moderator, and Rev. C. K. Colver, 
Clerk. At the ensuiug meeting of the St. Croix Valley Baptist As- 
sociation in Hudson, June 3d and tth, 1 s 7 I, the Olivet Church became 
a member of that body. It maintains regular public worship, and :i 
Bible School in Olivet II til, a pla ■•• specially fitted up for these pur- 
ine Church is now under the pastoral care of Rev- C. K. 
Colver. The Superintendent of the Bible School is S. ( 1- Dean. 
The Trustees are N. Burnham, J. T. Long and L. L. Larkham. — c. 



klliipp, StOUl & CoiUl'cMiV. 

Tin' linn which bears the name of K . Stout & Co. deserves 
moro than a passing ootice ; and though it necessarily figures largely 
in the history of Menomonie and Dunn county as already given, this 
.work would be incomplete without a d u of the great manu- 

facturing institution which it represents. Those of our readers who 
have followed the history through, will remember how two young men 

who p i ed little "f this world's goods, but who had hands willing 

to labor, poled the kee e them to their new home in the 

• wilderness; but the reader will not fully understand what a 

work this new firm has accomplished, or what a mammoth institution 

i t is, until he iii- gone with us through the establishments and branch 

iblishments which the company own, and Bees the hundreds i 
that are employed and the work that is done. 



304 American Shetch Booh 

The present firm of Knapp, Stout & Co. comprises six members, 
four of whom reside in Menomonie. These are John H. Knapp Esq. 
Capt. William Wilson, Capt. Andrew Tainter, and T. B. Wilson, Esq. 
who is a son of Capt. William Wilson. The other two members are 
II. L. Stout, Esq. wlio is in charge of the branch office at Dubuque, 
and J. H. Douglass, Esq. who superintends the branch office at St. 
Louis 

Knapp, Stout & Co. have in Menomonie a large water power saw 
mill capable of sawing three hundred thousand feet of lumber every 
twelve hours during the season for manufacturing lumber, say 
from April 1st to Dec. 1st. They have also a large steam saw mill, 
built especially for sawing long timber, and one of the largest and 
best flouring mills in the State, run also by water power. In connec- 
tion with these Mills, they own and operate a foundry, machine shop, 
blacksmith and wagon shops. They make their own barrels for their 
flour mill and pork barrels for their pork house. They have an ex- 
tensive harness shop for making and repairing their own harness used 
by the numerous teams employed in so large a business. They carry 
the most varied and extensive stock of merchandise to be found in the 
state outside of Milwankee. Their shingle and planing mill in Me- 
nomonie is situated at the mouth of Wilson Creek, which empties into 
the main river about forty yards above their large water power saw 
mill. 

The lake or pond, made by the dam across the main Red Cedar 
river at this point, is one and a half miles long by about from three 
quarters of a mile to one mile in width; and gives easy boomage for 
two hundred and fifty million feet of lumber in the logs. 

At Rice Lake, in Barron County, sixty miles north of Menomonie, 
they have a saw-mill and a grist mill, both run by water power, also a 
store, a hotel and a large farm. At Prairie Farm, also in Barron 
county, they have a water power saw-mill, a grist mill, a large store r 
and a farm of nine hundred and sixty acres, all under cultivation. — 
The above are both growing, active new villages, offering good open- 
ings for enterprising persons. 

At Downsville, eight miles below Menomonie on the Red Cedar 
river, this Company has also a large water pow r er saw mill and fine 
facilities for holding logs. In connection with the mills are the 
necessary shops, a large store of varied merchandise, and half a mile 
from the village of Downsville, a large and well regulated farm. 

They have branch establishments not only at the points already 



■ II in O'Shavgm ssey's Confession. 

named, but also at Dunnville in the same county: at Waubeek in 
Pepin county; at Read's Landing, Minnesota and at Dubuque, I 
where they have a large lumber yard and a saw mill. At St. Louis 
Mo., they have also a large lumber yard, which wholesales lumber to 
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and ether states and territories. 

At their various sawmills, during the year 1874, they sawed sev- 
enty million feet of logsfinto lumber and Bhingles. 

Knapp, Stout & Company employ in their lumbering operati 
from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred men. They are said to be 
the largest manufacturers of lumber in the world, and the lai 
farmers in the state of Wisconsin. One of their farms, known as the 
Moore Farm, contains about two thousand acres, nearly all under 
cultivation. They are extensive land owners, both of improved and 
unimproved lands, situated in Dunn and Barron counties, much of 
which is for sale. Parties in search of new homes in the beautiful, 
healthgiving state of Wisconsin, or those in the state who are not 
pleasantly located and desire a change, would do well to see or write 
to this firm before purchasing elsewhere, as the company offer some 
very desirable farms, both improved and unimproved, at very reason- 
able rates. Unlike some representative of wealth, the members of 
this company are always courteous and accommodating to all, and 
parties who might desire to visit them, or to write to them for infor- 
mation concerning the sale of lands, may be Bure of a pleasant re- 
ception, and prompt replies. 



I nil O'SIkmi^iicsscv's Coi|lcssioi|. 



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That I am to convince, widout doubt, ye 

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Must me lips be etarnally chantin' 

The charms 1 belave ye \ 
0, begorra, iflovin' is rantin, 

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Them i" one r ho 1 1 jlst i eadj to die ' 
II on 1th i love's hand maid, sure to mo notion 

A ml nun .in; ir:il fudgO I ho PI ITO i ni'r 

01 i ink i n' dove's oooin' <i<\ q! Ion, 

Wlio Km nayther fight, fiddle nor danoe ! 
Huh ' ni lover made up of disases, 

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\ii' ii .iiirii be i he foliar < hat pluses, 

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Well I know, whin in oourtship embarkin , 

Sn im- oonsider ii wondei ful w ise, 
Po ... I, | in the l'n. in.- is ..i spai kin . 

As h all its ooinfoi ts v\ ei o signs . 
Ami ilicv iiv in oon\ ni' - '' vi- thai < *.»*»|»i*l 

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Some "ill sweai yure oomplexion is oloaror 

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County Officer . 

ROBERT MACA1 LEI • 

ii MICIIEL1 : I 
'I llnMA .1 GEORGE ■ i. II. 

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308 American Sketch Book 

W. H. LANDON, County Cierk. 

JOHN KELLEY, Jr., Register of Deeds. 

THOMAS PARKER, County Surveyor. 

GEORGE SCHAFER, County School Superintendent. 

J. P. WOOD, Coroner. 



Town Officers. 

A. O. BAILEY, f 

OLEUS OLSON, { Supervisors. 

FREDERICK URSINUS. [ 
THOMAS S. HELLER, Town Clerk. 
GEO. GALLAWAY, Town Treasurer. 
ROBERT MACAULEY, Assessor. 

JACOB JUNGCK, ) 

AMUND AMUNDSON, V Justices of the Peace. 

AUG. BALAND. J 

E. L. DOOLITTLE, ) 

JOHNNOULAN, } Constables. 

H. D. RANSIER, j 

A. H. JOHNSON, Scaler of Weights and Measures. 



S. W. Hunt. 
C- E. Freeman. 
Nils Michelet. 



W. C. Pease. 
J. M. Gates. 



Professional Men. 

ATTORNEYS. 
F. J. McLean, 
R. C. Bierce. 



PHYSICIANS 

Charles C. Wadsworth, 



E. B. Bundy. 
A. J, Messenger. 
Robert Macauley. 

W. F. Nichols. 
W. A. Bury. 



Banks. 



S. B. French. 



A. Amundson. 



Printing Office. 

"Dunn County News." Flint & Weber, Editors and Proprietors. 



Menomonie House- 
Union House- 



Hotels. 

Merchants Hotel. Wisconsin House, 

European Hotel. 



Bust ne 88 Directory, Menomonie^ Wisconsin. 309 

Union High School. 
.1. B. Tin;. er, Principal. 
.!.,: rart, Assistant. 

Libbie B. Thayer, Grammar Department. 
Hattie A. Salisbury, | [ntermediate Department, 
Lottie 8. N\ alker, i ' 

Lizzie Miller, ") 

• 1; "-\\',\ ■ I Primary Department. 

Jose] li II. 1 ' J 

Mrs. S. W. Ritche, J 



Churches. 

Congregational, J. C. Sherwin, Pastor. 
Methodist Episcopal, J. McClane, Pastor. 
First Baptist, W. W. Ann-, Pastor. 
Second Baptist, C. K. Colver. 
Episcopal, (vacant, i 
Catholic, George Keller, Pastor. 
Norwegian Lutheran, II. Krog, Pastor, 
indinavian Lutheran, G- Iloyrae, Pastor. 

GENERAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
ANDERSON, II. A.. Mouldei with Knapp, Stout & Co. 
Ames, W., Jr., Veterinery Surgeon. 
Andress, [ra, Veterinery Surgeon. 

BONELL, FRED., Photographer, and dealer in Organs, Pianos, etc. 
Bunker, C. W., Carpenter and Joiner. 
Baird, W. B., Student at Law, with F. J. M sL 
Blenis, II. C, Contractor and Builder. 
Burch, N., Clerk with Knapp, Stout & Co. 

Barwise, G. II., In charge of office department of Knapp, Stout & Co. 
Brewer, Geo. B., General Sup't Company's Clothing Department. 
Brunelle, A. I.. Millwright with Company. 
15urk, John A., Machinist with C tmpany. 
I lui k<-, Louis, Harness Maker with Company. 
I tray ton, ( >rville, L rad Agent. 
Burton, G. 1'.. Pattern Maker with Company. 
Bull, Mrs. S., Millinery and l»rt'.-- Making. 
Bunker, 0. A., Builder and Contractor. 



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Bailey, A. 0., Dealer in Hides, Furs, Wool and Ginseng. 

Belair, Adolph, Painter and Glazier. 

Berger, Anton, Restaurant. 

Bush, S. R., Blacksmith. 

Bailey, S. J., Practical Mason and Bricklayer. 

Bury, Dr. W. A., Eye and Ear Doctor. 

CONDON, THOS., Grocer ; Thirty-fourth street. 

Chickering, F. Jr., Agent Perkins, Newhall & Perkins Woolens, Mon- 

tello, Wisconsin. 
Coleman, W. E., Cashier with Knapp, Stout & Co. 
Clark, F. M. Telegraph Operator. 
Conway & Andrus, Milliners and Dressmakers. 
Cassidy, H. T., Clerk with S. B. French. 
Clark, C. A., Salesman with Company. 
Christenson, Peter, Miller with Knapp Stout & Co. 
Cavanagh, John, Menomonie Marble Works. 
Carpenter, J., Millwright, with Knapp, Stout & C). 
Diedrich, F., Harness Maker. 
Depew, A. J., Millwright. 

Dean, S. G., Agent for the Remington Sewing Machine. 
Downs, W. L., Lumberman. 
Dahl & Embretson, European Hotel. 
Desprois, Joe, Express Messenger. 

Edwards <fc Son, Dealers in Hardware, Paints % and Oils. 
Edeberg, John, Miller with Knapp, Stout & Co. 
Egdahl, 0. A., Foreman Company's Water Mill. 
Eytcheson, N. C, Boots, Shoes and Groceries. 
Evenson, Hans, Moulder with Company. 
Ehrhard, Adam, Cooper. 
Ehrhard, Jacob, Cooper. 
Ehrhard, Louis, Cooper. 
Eastwood, J. R., Dealer in Pumps. 

FLINT, R. J., " Dunn County News." 

FRENCH, S. B., Banker, Merchant and Real Estate Agent, 34th St. 

FOWLER, MRS. G. M., Millinery and Furnishing Goods, 34th St. 

FOWLER, G. M., Millwright and Surveyor. 

FOWLER, WILL, Music Teacher and agent for New England Organ. 

Fritzsche, Paul, Grain Buyer. 

Flynn, J. C, Clerk Menomonie House. 



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Fletcher, Mise Eva, Book-keeper for \. <>. Bail 

Freeman ) "Dag," "Devil" "News" Office. 

Flood, Win., Blacksmith. 

Fuss, ' Ihris, Brewer. 

Frissell, J. H., Assistant Foreman in Comganj r Yard. 

(!( >ODMAN, P. A., c irriage and Wago i M iker. 

Gray, Irving, with Knapp Stout & Co. 

Grob, otto. Clerk. 

Gordon, T. E., Machinist with Company. 

Gallaway, I leorge, I drayman. 

BOLMES, 1'. <'., Dealer in Furniture, Carpeting, etc. 

Hull, 1). S., Druggist, Thirty-fourth stn 

Hunt, Wescott, Grocer, Thirty-fourth Bti 

Halfhide, M., Wa^on Maker with Company. 

Heller, J. A., Dentist. 

Hughes, .1. M., Brick maker. 

Seller, T. S., Insurance Agent. 

Hughes, kt w is, Farmer. 

1 1 udson, W. G., < larpenter. 

Eildebrandt Rev. W., Past i .man M. E. Church. 

Hart, Charles H., clerk G mnar's Drug Store. 

Jensen, Peter, Turner with Knapp, Stout a. ('<>. 

Jensen, Andrew, Miller with Knapp, Stout & Co. 

Johnson, A. 11.. Grocer and Livery Stable Proprietor. 

.1. Johnson ,v Co., Shoo Shop and Boarding House. 

k, Charles, Boot and Shoe Maker. 
KNAPP, JOHN 11.. of Knapp, Stout & Co. 
KXAIT, STOl T \ Co., Lumbermen, Manufacturers and Mercl 
Knapp, 11. E., Book-keeper and Surveyor. 
Kelley, Frank, & Co., Brick Makers. 
Kent, William, Farmer. 
Knoble, John, \\ isconsin I Inn-;,'. 
Kreiser, Joseph, Restaurant. 
Knutson, < Iharles, Sa^i Filer. 

LARK HAM, E. F., Superintendent Company's Lumber Yard. 
Lyman, J., clerk with Knapp, Stout & I 
Landon, \\ . 1 1., ( lounty < Jlerk 
L. Lamson & Co., Contractors and Builders. 
Lammer, Peter, Clothing Store, Main 
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Larson, E., Merchant. 
Lord, C. D., Depot House. 
Lanimer, Peter, Merchant Tailor. 
Lucus, Herbert, Salesman with Wescott Hunt. 
McKAHAN, S. D., Postmaster. 

McKahan, J. B., Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all kinds of Mer- 
chandise. 
Marks, E., Sup't Mercantile Department Company's Store, 
Markhara, S. F., Sup't Grocery Department Company's Store. 
McClafferty, A., Sup't Tailoring Department Company's Store. 
Marugg, Simon, with Knapp, Stout & Co. 
McMoran, Thomas, Foreman Company's Harness Shop. 
Miller, Jacob, Artist and Music Teacher. 
Mott, Mrs. M. L. Librarian. 
Moss, T. F., Agent Florence Sewing Machine- 
Miller, C. E., Baker and Confectioner. 
Manske, Ed., Meat Market. 
Martin, G. F., Painter. 
Martin, J. M. Blacksmith. 
Martin, B. M., Planer. 

NEWSOM, E. J., Badger State Clubbing Agency. 
Noble, N. B., Assistant Sup't Company's Business Office. 
Nott, W. W., Contractor and Builder. 
Nonnae, A., Carpenter with Knapp, Stout & Co. 
Newsom, A. M., Clerk in Company's Flouring Mill. 
Noulan, John, Lumberman. 
Newsom Brothers, Apiary and Poultry Yard. 
ORDEMAN, G„ Paint Shop and Store. 
Ohnstad, 0., Boot and Shoe Store, Thirty-fourth street. 
Olson, E., Billiard Hall. 

Olson, Oleus, Contractor and Builder Shash, Doors and Blinds. 
Overby, Christ, Jeweler. 

Parker, Thomas, Chief Surveyor for Knapp, Stout & Co- 
Parker, John, with Knapp, Stout & Co. 
Patterson, Adam, Machinist with Company. 
Piers, Charles, Time-keeper for Company. 
Pion, Lewis, Salesman with Knapp, Stout & Co. 
Potter, II- R., Salesman for S. B. French. 
Prindle, M. D., Proprietor Durand and Menomonie Stage Line. 



Business Directory, Menomonie, Wisconsin. 

Pauly, Chris, Baker. 
Pollard, W. B., Lumberman. 
Pease, P. E., Carpenter ami Joiner. 

Peterson, IIoMen, Salesman for J. 15. MeKahan. 

<,|uinn & Carmichael, Blacksmith and Wagon SI 

ROGERS, S. C.,4£up'tof Company's Boarding [louse. 

Robbins, J. 13., Boot and Shoe Maker. 

R »gler, Joho, Tinner with K na j>i«. Stout & Co. 

Robinson, W. ('., Book-keeper. 

Roland, J. E., Machinist. 

Reed, George, Baker with C impany. 

Romback, Phillip, Minnesota II >u 

Ransier, II. I>., Farmer. 

SPRAGUE, J. B., Proprietor of the Stage Line from Men >mo aie to 

Rice Lake. 
Schroeder, Clark, Blacksmith with Company. 
Stone, T. S., Hardware Department ofKnapp, Stout & I 
Strieker, F. M.. Clothing Department of Knapp, Stout & C 
Solbergand Amundson, General Merchandi 
Schutte k Quilling, Dealers in General Merchandise, and Proprii 

of the Banking and Steamship Agency. 
Syverson, A., Boots and Shoes. 
Sayles, Herbert, Barber, Thirty-fourth street. 
Sniveley, J. II., Dealer in Organs, Sewing and Knitting Machin 
Scanlon, John, Wood Sawyer. 
Stendahl, Erick, Cook. 
Soper, G. C, Foreman for Company. 
Sander, George II., Dry Goods Clerk. 
Swenomson, A., Farmer. 
Sherburne, A. C, Farmer. 
Schwehm, Jacob, Restaurant. 
Story, D. Restaurant. 
Sprague, J. P>., Mail Contractor. 
Stephens, John, Blacksmith and Car 3h »|--. 

Sherwin, \V. A., Foreman "News" Office. 
TAINTER, CAPT. ANDREW, with Knapp. Stout & Co. 
TONNAR, GEORGE, Drugs, Stationery and Books, 84th bI 
Tainter, J. !>., City Livery. 
Thorn, B. S.. Wagon Maker. 



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Tuttle, E. S., 

Toft, E. A. Watch Maker and Jeweler. 

Thomas, I. J., Architect, Master Mechanic and Bridge Builder. 

Thompson, Geo. P., Telegraph Operator, Depot. 

Voedisch, C, Furniture Store. 

Voedisch, Chris., Restaurant. 

WILSON, CAPT. WILLIAM, of Knapp, Stout & Co. 

WILSON, THOMAS B., of Knapp, Stout & Co. 

WEBER, E. H., of the " Dunn County News." 

Woods, J. J., Druggist with Knapp, Stout & Co. 

Warren, William, Blacksmith. 

Waldron, J. E., Carpenter and Joiner. 

Wasserer, Frank, Eagle House. 

Young, W. D. Lumberman. 

Yeo, William, Miller with Knapp, Stout & Co. 

Yeo, William, Jr. Foreman Company's Flouring Mill. 



" Sow ¥l\ey Di c op fi'orq Om c ^ive^. 

How the things that we love drop away from our lives 

As the beautiful flowers die ; 
And some sweet, wayside blossom springs upward and thrives 

In the soil, where their ashes lie ! 

One by one, do they silently wither away, 

And in darkness we weep for our dead, 
Never thinking the clouds will be lifted some day, 

And another one bloom in their stead ; — 

Never thinking the sun of the morrow may be 

Just as bright as the sun of the past, 
And the beauty next summer of flower and tree 

None the less for the winter's sharp blast. 

How unwise, if a blossom we cherish should fade, 

To believe that all beauty is gone; 
Or when darkness is brooding on hill and in glade, 

To deny that a morning will dawn ! 



Paying Fort 315 

IImw unwise, when h loved one ia raise to his vow, 

Or a tre wure i i taken above, 
To declare with n Bhadow of woe on our brow, 

That on earth there is nothing to love. 

True, the things that we love drop away from our li. 

As the beautiful il >wers die ; 
B it, thank » rod ! Bome sweet blossom Bprings upward and thi i 

In the a »il, where their ashes lie .' — m.i. i. a French, 



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Plkyii\^ Forfeits. 



MA.TTIE was going to have some company, one evening. It 
in the beautiful summer time, a ,L r 1 many years ago. The 

house, where Mattie lived, was a white cottage in a village, but it had a 
garden in front of it, and the little girls, and large om - 

1 d to congregate there. But on this particular evening, Mattie's 

friends were invited guests, for Bhe was to have a supper party, Belle 
was tlir first one who came. Sin- was fifteen years old, and quite a 
young Lady. There were two Marys, the oldest of which was called 
Mollie, in order to designate the two, one from the other. Helen and 
Sarah made up the half dozen. Ami what a gay half dozen girls they 
! They lived for mischief, and mischief seemed to abound for 
them. The supper was eaten with a relish, and spiced, as it wenl down, 
with a wee bit of gossip; for our minature women partake considerably 
of their mother's dispositions. Betsey had been getting a new In. unci ; 
Julia was going away to school, and, Alice had actually L_ r "t a beau. 
All "('which had to be talked over and commented on. When they 
were done eating supper, the girls cleared away the dishes and put the 
room in ordef for a game of forfeits. They played a long while; .-ill of 
them, excepting Belle, having to pay numberless forfeits, such as 
"drawing wood," "standing on chips," "measuring tape," and the like: 
and at last, Belle was caught. 



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" Give her a hard one !" cried the rest of the girls to Sarah, who was 
the judge at that time. 

"I have nearly exhausted my stock of forfeits," returned the one 
addressed. "Let me see; what shall it be ?■" " Well Belle," addressing 
the prisoner, "you may go out in the street, and walk to the corner, 
quacking like a duck.'' 

The girls laughed at the novel judgment. Belle laughed too, and ran 
out into the darkness to do as she was hidden, followed by all the girls, 
who wished to make sure that she did not deceive them in regard to the 
matter. A great heavy cloud had spread over the sky, shutting out 
the twinkling stars, and causing the darkness to be very intense. But 
Belle was not afraid of the darkness. Recklessly, she opened the gate, 
and went out. 

" Quack ! quack ! quack !" she bawled, and the girls at the gate 
giggled. "Quack! quack! quack!" she yelled, louder than before ; 
this time in the very face of a young gentleman, who was coming down 
the street, and whom the darkness had rendered imperceivable. Belle 
caught one glance of his wondering eyes, then, frightened half out of 
her wits, fled back to the house to relate her strange adventure to the 
girls, who greeted it with roars of laughter. What the gentleman 
thought of her behavior, Belle never knew, and the matter is a source 
of wonder to this day. But, as I said before, it happened a good many 
years ago. The gay girls are all separated now. Belle, who "loved 
not wisely, but too well," is leading a miserable life in a Southwestern 
State, with a brute of a husband, whom she once idolized, but now 
despises. < )ne of the Mary's is married and is an invalid ; the other is 
an old maid. Helen has been married, divorced, and married again. 

Sarah married Helen's first lover, and is unhappy, because she thinks 
her husband does not love her. And Mattie, the spirit of mischief, who 
made life so bright to the other girls, who sang like a bird and danced 
like a fairy — Mattie, whom everyone thought would enjoy life so much, 
fell a victim to grief, through man's deceit, and died. 

Children, you are reveling in the golden sunshine of life. 0, would 
that I might keep the storms away, that you might never know such 
woe as came to those six girls, who, on that summer evening, long ago, 
were playing forfeits. — BONNTBEL. 



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"Hate oot. It is ii"! worth while, i'our life is nol long enough to 
make it pay to cherish ill-will or hard thoughts toward any one. \\ hal 
if thai man has cheated you, or that woman played you false? 
if this friend has forsaken you in your time of need, or thai one, liai 
wiin your utmosl confidence, your warmest love hag concluded thai be 
prefers to consider and treal youasa tranger? Le1 ii all pass. What 
difference will it make to you in a few years, when von i_ r '> hence to the 
"undiscovered country?" All w li< > ill-treat you will be more sorry for 
it then. than you, even in your deepesl disappointment and grief, can be. 
A few more smiles, a few m »re tears, some pleasures, much pain, a lit- 
tle longer hurrying and worrying through the world, Bome hasty greet- 
. and abrupt farwells, and our play will be "played out," and the 
injurer and the injured will he led away, an 1 er i 1 ng forgotten. I 
worth while to hate each other?" 

•• A man who hadn't much talent for conundrums, in attempting to 
one offal a tea party at his own house, the other evening, ; :eed- 

ingly mixed. He intended to ask the old question, "Why i- a woman 
like ivy?" the familar but gallant answer to which is, " B icausc the more 
you're ruined the closer she clings." P> ; i r he pul it, "Why i- ivy like 
a woman?" which none of the ladies could tell, and so the unfortunate 
man himself told them it was "Because the closer it clings the more 
you're ruined." 

"Be not ashamed to confess thai yon have hi en in the wrong. It is 
but owning what you need nol be ashamed of, thai you now have more 
Bense than vou had before, to 3ee your error, more humility to acknowl- 
edge it. and more grace to correel it." 

•• Words, 'those fickle daughters of the earth, 1 are the creation of a 
being thai is finite, and when applied to explain thai which is infinite, 
i!ie\ tail ; for that which i> made surpasses nol the maker, nor can thai 
which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues." 

•■ Never do a w rong thing to make a friend or to keen one. The man 
who wants you to do so is dearly purchased and at a sacrifice. D< 
kindly and firmly with all men, and you will find it the policy which 

Wear- the l>e>t." 



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A fair crusader beseecheth Mr. Cobb 
Doffins to ascertain if any liquor is 
sold at the Kestaurants, no saloons 
being allowed to exist. 



He ascertained 





But concludes upon leaving the, u Kestau- His testimony in the hands of the fair cru- 
rant" that in union there is strength. sader, hurls vengeance at the head of 

the "Kestauraut" man. 




Immediately after he had a call elsewhere, 
and is helped away by the anti-temper- 
ance folks. 



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